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Governor Chris Christie recently announced a bipartisan agreement on model legislation to help reclaim the millions of family members, friends, neighbors and coworkers in New Jersey and across the country who are stricken by drug addiction. Three new expungement…
It has been estimated that the number of registered medical marijuana users would increase 10-fold to 450,000 people by 2024. But with this uptake comes in increase in unexpected costs for employers. In Skinner v. Board of Trustees of the Canadian Elevator Industry…
In April, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice signed legislation that legalizes the use of medical marijuana for those with serious medical conditions. The drug may only be dispensed as pills, oil, topical forms, vaporization, nebulization, tincture, liquid or dermal…
The Safer Workplace Act, will goes into effect July 7, 2017, will broaden the circumstances under which employers may conduct workplace drug and alcohol testing. Employers must comply with all of the statue’s requirements in order to take advantage of its benefits….
Ralph Greer established a Fourth Amendment violation by several individual supervisors after being discharged from his position with the Detroit Department of Water and Sewage (DWSD) when he refused to submit a drug test to the company. The Construction Inspector was…
A recently published Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index has demonstrated that illicit drug use among United States employees is on the rise, resulting in the highest drug test positivity rates in the last 12 years. The survey of more than 10 million workforce drug…
In November, Maine became one of four states in which voters approved a new recreational marijuana law. The law took effect on Jan. 30, but emergency legislation passed on Jan. 27 delayed the implementation of certain provisions of the law. This included pushing the…
A lawsuit in which a job applicant challenged a public employer’s decision to withdraw an offer to employment after the individual tested positive for cocaine has been dismissed by a federal district court. Turner v. Richmond Public Schools, et al., No. 3:16-cv-256…
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) recently heard oral arguments in a case that asks whether employers can be required to make accommodations for employees’ off-duty use of medical marijuana. The state passed a measure decriminalizing marijuana for…
It is important to understand that, even for states without a drug testing statute, laws and case laws still impact the how, when and who of drug testing. Take California, for instance, where there is a mound of case law that has set legal precedence for workplace…