A report in Contemporary Economic Policy examines the impact of smoke-free rules on the restaurant labor market according to the Hindu. While there have been a number of studies which show that smoke free rules do not hurt business, what was not earlier studied is whether they adversely impact employee retention.

However, if this study is to believed, such rules may actually aid employee retention immediately after they are implemented. In the long term — a five year period in this case — their presence or absence does not seem to affect employee retention and turnover.

The study which was conducted by Ellen Hahn by examing the ‘payroll records of a franchisee of a national full-service restaurant chain that operates twenty-three restaurants in Arizona’ challenges popular beliefs such as those which say that such laws would cause employees to leave their jobs or lose interest in them.