Maine Employers Must Ignore Off-Work Marijuana Use, Cease Testing Applicants
USA - January 30 2018 On February 1, 2018, Maine will become the first jurisdiction in the nation to protect workers from adverse employment action based on their use of...
Melinda (Mindy) J. Caterine, Jeffrey E. Dilger, Nancy N. Delogu.
DOT Tackles the Opioid Crisis: Agency Issues Guidance on Regulations Adding Semi-Synthetic Opioids to Testing Panel
USA - December 26 2017 Effective January 1, 2018, employers with employees subject to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s drug-testing regulations will face new and...
In the First Case of its Kind, Court Rules Federal Law Does Not Trump Employee Protections under State Medical Marijuana Law
USA - August 16 2017 Employers nationwide take note: if your workplace drug and alcohol-testing policies take a zero tolerance approach to medical marijuana because the...
Elizabeth R. McKenna, Matthew Curtin.
Tennessee Employers Subject to New Obligations to Report Healthcare Practitioners' Confirmed Drug (but not Alcohol) Tests and Test Refusals
USA - July 12 2017 A new Tennessee law, effective July 1, 2017, imposes new reporting requirements on healthcare practitioner1 (HCP) employers. Under the new reporting...
Jennifer Robinson, Harry W. Wellford Jr..
Maine Delays Effective Date of Anti-Discrimination Provisions of Recreational Marijuana Law
USA - March 17 2017 On November 8, 2016, Maine voters approved “Question 1”An Act To Legalize Marijuana (“ALM” or “the Act”). “Emergency” legislation since passed by...
