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While at least five states are preparing to vote on the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes, British medical journal Lancet Psychiatry recently released findings that about 10 million more Americans smoke marijuana than 12 years ago. Surveying adults…
The USDEA recently confirmed that the impairment caused by marijuana use has been evaluated as unsafe in the workplace. In addition, those who use marijuana have 75% more absenteeism, 55% more industrial accidents and 85% more workplace injuries than other employees,…
With a focus on the implications for employers, eight states will consider adopting medical and recreation marijuana use, joining 25 states and the District of Columbia. Arkansas, Florida and North Dakota will make decisions that would allow medical use, while…
People with arrest records, heavily African Americans and Latinos, have won a $15 million settlement in a case in which they were unable to obtain jobs as census takers due to alleged problems with the U.S. Census Bureau’s background check procedures. The…
A recent case in which the violent history of the user of an Internet dating site was not revealed to a potential match, resulting in her harm, has caused the Ninth Circuit to make significant changes to use of Section 230. The Ninth Circuit recently limited the…
Given a workforce facing unprecedented skills gaps and a country where tens of thousands of state and federal inmates are being released back into their communities every month, finding a way to integrate previously incarcerated persons into the workforce is a worthy…
Human Resource Management research has confirmed that managers play a critical role in the retention of new hires, and that those employees who quit within the first year were hired through an inadequate staff-selection process, have had poor staff orientation or have…
The New Orleans City Council recently approved legislation making it unlawful for city contractors to seek or use the consumer credit history of a current or prospective employee for any decision regarding the hiring or compensation of an employee or the terms,…
The Georgia State Legislature passed SB 160 this last session and just signed into law by Governor Nathan Deal, which greatly expands Georgia’s previous immigration compliance law HB 87. SB 160 potentially imposes greater hardships to many state sub-contractors,…
A new survey exploring the main causes of corporate data breaches suggests that three out of four organizations in the US have been hit with the loss or theft of sensitive data in the last two years — and insiders are usually the ones at fault.According to the…