Drug use policies will remain the employer’s decision if Measure 91 is passed.
Drug use policies will remain the employer’s decision if Measure 91 is passed.
In recent years, court cases mostly have ruled in favor of the employer’s right to decide drug use policies. In 2011, the Supreme Court in Washington upheld the firing of a call center employee who tested positive for marijuana, despite the employee owning a medical marijuana card. In 2010, Oregon’s Supreme Court reached the same decision in the case of a worker at a steel company in Eugene.
That puts the ball in employer’s court in January 2016, the date that marijuana, if Measure 91 is passed, would be legalized for adults 21 and up.
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