Illinois Employers Struggling with Setting Workplace Marijuana Policies
The date recreational marijuana becomes legal in Illinois is not that far away. Many businesses are not sure how to implement usage policies.
Just how will legalized marijuana affect the place you work. As you'll see in the video below, the Belvidere Chamber of Commerce hosted a talk on the subject of workplace marijuan policies and not much was solved.
You can still be tested for drugs at work, but you can't be discriminated against for off-site and off-hours usage of marijuana, according to mystateline.com.
“If you’re not regulated at the federal level, then it becomes that question of, ‘all right – I can have a zero tolerance policy. I can have a drug free workplace policy, and yet it’s now a legal drug’.” Samuel Castree, the Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Staff Management, Inc.