Tom Enright wrote in a message to Mark Logsdon:
-=> On 01-02-98  16:55 Mark Logsdon said to Jim Jeffcoat <=-
 JJ> Don't forget, California has just this year enacted a law prohibiting
 JJ> smoking in bars.
 JJ> Now if that isn't a stupid law, I don't know what is.  And that's
 JJ> coming from a respiratory therapist.
 ML> The next step is to ban it in private homes.  It's to protect the
 ML> children and any workers who might possibly enter those private
 ML> homes.  The anti-tobacco lobby has been for years laying the
 ML> groundwork for such a step.  Just wait and see.
 TE> You don't have to wait, it's part of the California law that
 TE> isn't being enforced at the moment.  The law applies to
 TE> *any* place that has employees who work more than X hours
 TE> per month. This includes full-time housekeepers, live-in
 TE> baby sitters, live-in nurses etc..  It already applies in 
 TE> private homes.
Jeez.
Would folks that you "contract with" rather than "employ" still be subject to 
this stuff?  Yeah,  I know that there are a lot of situations where they're 
starting to say that people oughta be responsible for taking taxes out of 
what would otherwise be considered a contractual relationship,  like that one 
clinton nominee who got some negative publicity with regard to this stuff,  
but really...!
 TE> The only places it doesn't apply in California is on Federal 
 TE> Reservations (military bases and indian reservations). 
Oh,  the feds are _exempting themselves_ from state laws,  are they?
 TE> The Indian Gaming Casinos are cashing in big-time on the 
 TE> exception.
Well,  shoot,  why not if you're in a position to do so?  :-)
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