Employers will still be allowed to take action against an employee who is impaired on-the-job, but only if an employee “manifests specific articulable symptoms of impairment.”
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Kansas City, MO: City Council Approves Measure Eliminating Pre-Employment Marijuana Testing for Most City Workers
Certain government positions would be excluded from the protections under this law.
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Virginia: Governor Approves Employment Protection Bill
Democratic Governor Ralph Northam has signed House Bill 1862 into law, which provides employment protections for state-registered medical cannabis patients.
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Feds Issue Updated Guidance Regarding the Hiring of Federal Workers with a History of Cannabis Use
The revisions make it clear that the federal Drug-Free Workplace Act — passed in 1988 — remains in place, and that federal employees “are required to refrain” from the use of either cannabis or other federally controlled substances “whether on or off…
Virginia: Where Marijuana Reform Legislation Stands Ahead of Friday’s Crossover Deadline
And, a just-released statewide poll shows 68% of registered voters in Virginia, including majorities of Democrats and Republicans, support legalizing marijuana for adults.
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Oklahoma: Expanded Protections for Cannabis Patients to Take Effect
Legislation will take effect next week expanding and strengthening protections for state-qualified medical cannabis patients.
Marijuana Patients Hobson’s Choice: Work or Medicate?
An employer may terminate an employee for his or her off-the-job marijuana use, even if the employee is authorized under state law to use cannabis medicinally, the Washington state Supreme Court ruled last week.
Off-the-job medical marijuana use does not bar firing: Wash. high court
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The ruling stemmed from the case of a woman who suffered […]