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Home Depot will no longer screen employees for marijuana: report
New York Post ^ | 08/30/2024 | Ariel Zilber

Posted on 08/30/2024 8:21:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Home Depot plans to do away with testing prospective employees for marijuana and will ban screening current staffers for pot, according to a report.

The big box retailer — which employs roughly 400,000 people in more than 2,000 locations nationwide — sent memo earlier this week saying that “marijuana will be removed from all drug panels” throughout the company’s US-based operations, according to the news site Marijuana Moment.

The directive from the human resources department said the company will also ban testing for marijuana following a workplace accident and in cases where there’s reasonable suspicion that an employee was impaired, according to the site.

SCOOP: Internal memo says Home Depot, one of the largest employers in the U.S., will update its employee drug testing policies next month to remove cannabis from all screening panels and stop pre-employment drug testing of most workers.

https://t.co/suCNH1Ks0p pic.twitter.com/YzqTCFSMU0— Ben Adlin (@badlin) August 27, 2024

Pre-employment drug testing for marijuana “will only be conducted for external candidates with contingent offers in Asset Protection and Corporate Security,” according to the memo cited in the report.

The changes are reportedly set to take effect on Sept. 1.

The Post has sought comment from Home Depot.

“Home Depot continually evaluates our policies, the external environment, and benchmarks with other companies to ensure we remain competitive while complying with local, state, and federal laws,” read the memo, whose contents were first circulated on a Home Depot-linked Reddit forum.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: employees; homedepot; marijuana; screening
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In every company I used to work for, I was asked to submit my urine sample before being hired.

I wonder of these companies still do this....

1 posted on 08/30/2024 8:21:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder how that works out when a tow motor structurally compromises shelving resulting in an unfortunate incident.


2 posted on 08/30/2024 8:23:49 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: SeekAndFind

To misquote a former President, they aren’t getting all weed-weed up


3 posted on 08/30/2024 8:25:51 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: SeekAndFind

They are setting themselves up fp lawsuits. They should at least screen the employees who drive forklifts and handle the saws.


4 posted on 08/30/2024 8:26:08 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why bother screening when you already know what the result will be, or when you don’t want to know the result?


5 posted on 08/30/2024 8:26:37 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Tench_Coxe

> I wonder how that works out when a tow motor structurally compromises shelving resulting in an unfortunate incident. <

This policy change is good news for the stoners.
It’s also good news for the personal injury lawyers.


6 posted on 08/30/2024 8:29:11 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What ... those guys aren’t far enough ‘out of it’ already??

Ask one of them to calculate what you need for bathroom tile while he/she is high. Good luck!


7 posted on 08/30/2024 8:29:37 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Jeff Chandler
This is one of a growing number of examples where an employer is damned if they do, and damned if they don't.

If they screen for something, they have to react to a positive test. If they don't screen in the first place, they are in a stronger position to plead ignorance when something goes wrong.

And to be fair, one of the problems with marijuana screening is that current testing technology doesn't do an effective job of establishing impairment. This is a big reason why law enforcement organizations that deal with motor vehicle safety have long been opposed to legalizing marijuana.

8 posted on 08/30/2024 8:30:34 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Ain't it funny how the night moves … when you just don't seem to have as much to lose.”)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Wait till the fork lift guy backs into some little old lady!!


9 posted on 08/30/2024 8:31:16 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: SMARTY

There’s “high,” and there’s residual THC in the system. Screening doesn’t distinguish between the two.


10 posted on 08/30/2024 8:34:36 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: SeekAndFind

MMJ and/or RMJ users plus power tools?

What could possibly go wrong?


11 posted on 08/30/2024 8:34:56 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: gundog

The test should be offering stale doritos, or cold pizza.


12 posted on 08/30/2024 8:35:41 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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To: SeekAndFind

Guess they finally realized you don’t need to be sober to tell people what they’re looking for is on the other side of the store.

Never been drug tested for any job ever.


13 posted on 08/30/2024 8:35:42 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s the non-recession. Cut costs. Bottom line.


14 posted on 08/30/2024 8:37:18 AM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't here soon enough!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I switched to Lowes many years ago and this latest WOKEISM from Home Depot cements that choice.


15 posted on 08/30/2024 8:37:56 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter (wokeis)
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To: SeekAndFind

oh great, the merchandise is already all mixed up on the shelves!


16 posted on 08/30/2024 8:40:51 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: rightwingcrazy

Because if you’ve been in a Home Depot lately, they are desperate for decent help.


17 posted on 08/30/2024 8:41:56 AM PDT by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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...the company will also ban testing for marijuana following a workplace accident and in cases where there’s reasonable suspicion that an employee was impaired...

That's stupid. That's exactly when they should test.

Let the employees know that even though they are not testing normally, they will be let go if they cause injury or major damage and found to be impaired by any drug.

18 posted on 08/30/2024 8:43:18 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: SeekAndFind

It happens nearly every time I am on the highway now.

Traveling at 60 mph, I can smell weed coming from cars around me. The stuff nowadays must be really potent


19 posted on 08/30/2024 8:44:20 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: going hot
Might work. I know a guy that worked in a place that sold steel. In his mind, this made him a “steelworker.“. He was also one of the biggest heads I’ve ever met. He worked the warehouse, and drove truck. One day, a sheet of steel fell over, and messed up a co-worker’s leg pretty badly. I think it was just “one of those things“....nobody in particular at fault, but they tested anybody near the event. He came up hot for weed. But....they tested him as a warehouseman, and bureaucracy being the stupid beast that it is, he didn’t lose his CDL or driving job. 🤷‍♂️

There is likely no fool-proof solution...and there are a lot of fools out there.

20 posted on 08/30/2024 8:45:32 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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