Yeah, I might believe that but the stats don't support that claim.
Posted on 03/23/2019 6:58:01 AM PDT by billorites
Companies facing a shortage of employees from health-care workers to forklift operators are confronting a new challenge: finding candidates who can pass drug tests in states that have legalized marijuana.
Ten states and Washington, D.C., have legalized recreational marijuana use. Lawmakers in Illinois, New Jersey, New York and elsewhere are pushing to do the same. More than 60% of Americans support legalization, according to Pew Research Center, double the rate in 2000.
Marijuana use has generated millions of dollars in additional tax revenue for states that have legalized its use. But job applicants in those states are also flunking drug tests at higher rates than the national average, according to Quest Diagnostics Inc., DGX -0.42% a major drug-screening provider. Applicants for transportation and warehouse jobs in California tested positive for marijuana use 60% more often in 2017 than in 2015, Quest said. California voted to legalize marijuana use in 2016.
Some employers say too little thought was put into the impact legalization would have on hiring and workplace safety.
“We have moving equipment, machinery, fork trucks that drive around,” said Chuck Tewell, human-resources director for Joseph’s Gourmet Pasta Co. in Massachusetts, where marijuana use was legalized in 2016. “The safety part is the major concern.”
Mr. Tewell said the company recently hired 100 temporary workers from neighboring New Hampshire for positions he was struggling to fill. That is nearly half of the company’s assembly line staff.
More than half of employers give drug tests to job applicants, according to a poll of 1,058 hiring managers by the Society for Human Resource Management. Some companies say the tests are important in preventing workplace accidents and avoiding legal disputes.
Other companies in states that have legalized marijuana are dropping marijuana from their screening tests or raising the threshold for failure.
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Don’t care if it is legal.
I would not hire a pothead and more than I’d hire an alcoholic.
Why are those in Congress, judges, law-enforcement and teachers not required to submit to random drug test like so many other people in much less critical positions?
Ask. If they say no, then you later find out they lie, fire them. I presume someone could include a tox screen for nicotine but why bother, keep it simple.
I was told by an HR rep for a major corporation that they had to test thirty potential hires to get one that could pass the drug test. This was prior to pot becoming legalized anywhere.
Thanks,just curious.
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Yeah, I might believe that but the stats don't support that claim.
It's not that they haven't. They can't because of the Rohrbacher-Farr, now Rohrabacher–Blumenauer amendment.
Endorphins aren’t opiates. I am not familiar with any research linking chocolate and idiocy but I have surely seen a lot of idiot pot smokers.
I don’t make a distinction between one “Mood Altering Substance” over another, regardless of whether or not they are Illegal or Common. If One “Mood Altering Substance” is grounds for termination or not getting hired, then ALL “Mood Altering Substances” should be treated equally.
If your “Mood” is altered as a result, then there is NO DIFFERENCE, your “mood” is still Altered regardless of the substance you took.!
Different substances alter mood in a different way.
Gee, stoned people teaching your kids, driving their bus, making your food, filling your prescription, performing your surgery, assembling your automobile, flying your plane, assembling and servicing that plane...what could go wrong?
Marijuana has NO affect on people, it’s the same as tobacco. Yeah, say that at 15 thousand feet when the stoned mechanic ‘missing’ a step in maintenance makes you fish food.
Washington state law is written to uphold an employer’s rights to requiree testing and refuse applicants who test positive.
Can I ask a stupid question?
How is it legal, to test for marijuana, and deny someone a job for marijuana use, in a state where it is legal?
If a person is using a legal substance, and is denied a job because of using a legal substance, is it time for lawsuits?”””
It is a stupid question......Do YOU have your own business???.......
Many companies are being told by their workmen’s comp insurance companies that NO CLAIM will be paid if the hurt employee tests positive for ANY DRUG-—including Marijuana.
How about having a business where employee’s drive your trucks? A florist for instance. IF the vehicle insurance company won’t give Liability coverage for any employee who tests positive for ANY drugs, you cannot have that person in your trucks.
Some homeowner’s insurance companies are stating that IF anyone is hurt on your property & they test positive for any drugs of any kind, NO coverage will apply. Not a whole lot different than refusing to cover Pit Bulls that you might own.
I would like to figure out how I can rent a building/house & know that the renter isn’t using drugs. I don’t need the headaches.
I can remember when California would seize your house /property if authorities found Marijuana or other drugs inside. Once had a blind date who I caught putting a baggie of MJ into my kitchen cupboard. AFTER I reamed him out quite well, I locked him out of my house. Told the person who ‘fixed me up’ to NEVER do any blind dates for me EVER AGAIN. Broke off my contact with that person, also.
I have the right to protect my Property-—My business & my person. Drug users need not come near me. Home Depot has hug signs on their windows:
Hiring: IF you use drugs, don’t bother. WE TEST.
I applaud them for that.
Right to work is the only way to go.
You have a right to work, and I have a right not to have you working for me. Its my company. I set the standards and pay the payroll/bills. Its all my risk. I can employ who I want. I can serve who I want.
If they tell you “No” before you hire them then take a smoke/vape break, they have proved themselves to be untrustworthy and that is an immediate trip to the door.
Other companies in states that have legalized marijuana are dropping marijuana from their screening .
Insurance companies says don’t call us your on your own.
And in the world of moving heavy stuff where insurance premiums matter, those requirements often include peeing clean.
Home Depot was demanding drug tests years go. Big signs on their windows.
Same should apply to any job that includes driving a company truck.
You can sue anyone for anything, but employers will frequently not hire people if they go in for a screening and there's alcohol in their system.
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