As a part of its efforts to reel in workers' compensation costs, the Riverside County (California) Board of Supervisors yesterday approved a plan in concept to prohibit smoking cigarettes by Riverside County sheriff's deputies.New recruits will not be able to smoke under the plan and current deputies who smoke might also be asked to join programs to help them quit. Riverside County's human resource director, Ron Komers, used to be the HR director of Ventura County, and says that Ventura has had a no smoking policy for 10 years. The reason for the Riverside County smoking ban, according to the ...
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