They can fire someone who comes in all hungover can’t they?
You don’t have the “right” to work at any specific company.... the rights in this equation belong to the owner of a company. If someone wants the right to do whatever he/she pleases - then he/she needs to become the owner....become their own boss.
This is a refreshing shift in the right direction for employers....
“Coats sued after he was fired on June 7, 2010, alleging wrongful termination. He argued that marijuana was made “lawful” for the purposes of employment law when Colorado voters legalized it for medicinal use in 2000.”
So, using that logic an airline pilot could smoke pot and still fly as long as he has an RX for it?...............I think I’d rather walk than fly with that guy.
This is between employer and employee. A business owner has every right to set rules and fire those that violate them. There is no right to a job. The courts got it right.
Well...it’s legal to drink liquor in Virginia, but if I show up to work with whiskey on my breath I’m probably going to get fired too.
Why would anyone want to work for a place like that anyway? Vote with your feet - quit!
And don't ask me how I know. I still remember some things, even at this advanced age. :-)
The entire legal system is in place to govern cause and effect, while also making use of cause and effect. When it comes to substances which cause erratic, dysfunctional, or maliferous behavior to the extent/effect life and property of others is, or is more likely to be effected negatively, then the law places strictures on those substances and penalties upon those who choose to imbibe depsite the prohibition.
The threat of penalty serves as a restraint, and the penalty serves the interest of justice. The question I think law needs to address is whether citizens should be retrained and punished merely on the basis of potential behavior, or on the basis of actual behavior. Because today’s laws are, IMO, draconian in their prohibitions and penalties when it comes to use of self-medications, stimulants, and the like, I am inclined to see the law applied to actual behavioral results as opposed to mere potential.
Meanwhile, I look for the day when I have travel privately with an ice cold brew in hand without fear of some mad prospect hounding me into loss of liberty. With the dawn of self-driving vehicles that day may be at hand.
It’s legal to smoke pot in Colorado
Wonder what the accident rate is at work places after they made pot legal in the stoner state?.
Despite the fact that the employment statute in question is a state law. Quislings.