VU professor Elies Steygers talks about smokers’ rights

Vrij University of Amsterdam: professor Elies Steygers talks about smokers’ rights in the newspaper "Trouw". Job applicants who smoke needn’t worry about missing out on career opportunities as a result. The European Commission recently announced that employers have the right to refuse smokers, but in practice the situation is not that straightforward. ”It’s simply not feasible,” argues Elies Steygers, Professor of European Administrative Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Lawyers who specialize in employment law reckon that an employer has no control over what his personnel do or don’t do in their own time. Read more and see the fees: Eurogates. Forum of education news