Marijuana in the Workplace: New Laws, New Risks, New Responsibilities
| Duration: 60 minutes | Speaker: Don Phin, Esq. |
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As marijuana legalization expands across the U.S., employers face growing challenges involving workplace safety, drug testing, employee protections, reasonable suspicion, and disability accommodations. New state laws are limiting employer testing practices and increasing protections for off-duty marijuana use, while federal law still classifies marijuana as illegal.
In this training, Don will explain the latest marijuana workplace laws and legal developments, discuss impairment and testing challenges, review recent court cases, and provide practical guidance for updating workplace policies and reducing compliance risk.
Learning Objectives
- Key facts and trends surrounding marijuana use in the workplace
- The growing safety, productivity, and liability risks employers face
- New marijuana laws and recent legal changes affecting employers
- Federal vs. state law conflicts employers must navigate
- The distinction between medical and recreational marijuana use
- Drug testing challenges and new limitations on employer testing practices
- Testing for impairment and emerging impairment-detection methods
- What constitutes reasonable suspicion in the workplace
- Accommodating marijuana use under disability and employment laws
- Recent court cases and enforcement trends employers should understand
- Best practices for updating workplace policies and reducing legal risk
Take-Away Value
- A stronger understanding of the dangers and workplace impact of marijuana use
- Insight into the rapidly evolving legal and regulatory landscape
- Practical guidance for handling impairment, testing, and accommodation issues
- Best practices for managing marijuana-related workplace challenges in your company and state
- Strategies for updating policies to reduce compliance and litigation risk
Who Should Attend
- HR Professionals
- Managers
- Business Owners
- Directors
- Presidents
- In-house Counsel
- Attorneys
- Compliance Professionals
- Safety Professionals
- Operations Leaders
Don Phin, Esq.
Don Phin is a California employment law attorney. Since leaving his litigation practice more than twenty years ago, he has consulted with hundreds of companies to help improve their employment practices. He has presented in person over 600 times to CEOs, HR, and other executives on what works in leadership and employee relations. Don has written numerous books and built HRThatWorks, an online HR compliance and strategy program, used by 3,500 companies and sold to ThinkHR in 2014. In addition to consulting and speaking, Don does executive coaching, expert testimony, and workplace investigations. Streetwise from the Bronx (you can still hear the accent), Don moved to San Diego when he was 20 to work on a tuna boat and never came back. Today Don lives in sunny Coronado, California.
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