The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781337535878
Author: Frank B. Cross; Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Chapter 20, Problem 1CT
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Case summary: The employees of a company include smokers and non-smokers. Smokers take numerous paid smoking breaks while non-smokers do not take breaks. Both smoking and non-smoking workers are paid equally.
To find: The Ethical dimension in the given case.
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