8.16.090 County Workplaces and Non-County Office Workplaces to Adopt Smoking Policies.
A. Each non-County employer who operates a workplace in unincorporated Pierce County and each of Pierce County's elected and appointed officials shall, within three months of adoption of the ordinance codified in this Chapter, adopt, implement and maintain a written smoking policy which shall be conspicuously posted in all workplaces under the employer's jurisdiction and which shall contain, at a minimum, the following provisions and requirements:
1. Any nonsmoking employee may object to his or her employer about smoke in his or her workplace. The employer shall attempt to reach reasonable accommodation, insofar as possible, between the preferences of nonsmoking and smoking employees. However, an employer is not required by this ordinance to make any expenditures or structural changes to accommodate the preferences of nonsmoking and smoking employees.
2. If an accommodation which is satisfactory to all affected nonsmoking employees cannot be reached in any given office workplace, the preferences of nonsmoking employees shall prevail and the employer shall prohibit smoking in the workplace of the affected nonsmoking employees to the end that those employees may work in a smoke-free environment. Where the employer prohibits smoking in a non-County office workplace, the area in which smoking is prohibited shall be clearly marked with signs.
B. The smoking policy shall be announced within three weeks of adoption to all employees working in non-County office workplaces in unincorporated Pierce County and County workplaces as defined in Section 8.16.010 B. of this Chapter. The policy shall be posted conspicuously in all workplaces under the employer's or official's jurisdiction.