What are the penalties for violations for the Smoke free Workplace Act?
As mentioned earlier, employees will be subject to the Act’s penalties for violating it, as are the businesses that employ them. These include fines as high as $2,500 per violation. The state can waive these fines where compliance or other mitigating factors are shown, or it can double the fines if the violation was willful. Again, however, the State of Ohio has indicated that it will not immediately begin enforcing the Act.
