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A new law says California employers can’t discriminate against employees for using marijuana in off hours. What does that mean? In 2024, California employers can no longer punish employees for ...
The new protections are thanks to an amendment to California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act that was approved by Gov. Gavin Newsom back in 2022. Laws protecting California workers who use ...
A new California law prohibits most employers from using the most common kind of drug testing for marijuana use. Here’s what it means for you.
According to Cal. Health and Safety Code Section 1362.785 Medical Marijuana use is not required to be accommodated inside the workplace or in any type of correctional facilities or during work hours. It is important to note that under the Fair Employment and Housing Act, an employer may terminate an employee who tests positive for marijuana use ...
California Senate Bill 420 (colloquially known as the Medical Marijuana Program Act) [1] was a bill introduced by John Vasconcellos of the California State Senate, and subsequently passed by the California State Legislature and signed by Governor Gray Davis in 2003 "pursuant to the powers reserved to the State of California and its people under the Tenth Amendment to the United States ...
Since January 1, 1995, smoking has been banned in all enclosed workplaces in California, including restaurants and bars (bars were excluded until January 1, 1998), exempting only the following areas: workplaces with five or fewer employees (as long as all workers consent and persons under 18 are prohibited from the smoking area), 65% of the ...
Essentially, some employees cannot be fired or withheld a job due to their personal use of marijuana off hours. Employers are barred from discriminating against workers using drug-screening tests ...
[citation needed] In states without smoker protection laws some employers have begun refusing to hire new employees who smoke. [1] While many of these employers are using the honor system to enforce these policies, a few of them are requiring that employees be tested for nicotine.