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• Smokers have to punch in and out 

Employers are tightening the reins on their smoking employees by enforcing a new rule requring them to punch in and out every time they leave their desks for a cigarette break, reports Nyhedsavisen newspaper.

3F, one of the country's largest labour unions, is one of the companies who wants a harder line, despite the cries of protest by smoking workers.

'This is about equality between those who stay at their desks and carry on working and those who go outside for a cigarette break,' said Per Christensen, a 3F spokesperson.

Anette Bertram Sorensen, a representative for HK, the union for office workers, said it was 'grotesque' that management was singling out smokers only.

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