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  • Union: State shouldn't have fired man for smoking pot on job [CT]

    03/31/2016 8:51:10 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 16 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Mar. 31, 2016 10:51 AM EDT
    The Connecticut Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Thursday on whether a state employee who was fired for smoking marijuana on the job was punished too harshly and should be reinstated. Gregory Linhoff was fired from his maintenance job at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington in 2012 after a police officer caught him smoking pot in a state vehicle. He had no previous disciplinary problems since being hired in 1998 and had received favorable job evaluations, according to his labor union. He was arrested, but the charges were later dismissed. Linhoff appealed the discipline to an...