Pre-employment drug testing can feel overwhelming for many employers. What are the rules? Do certain drugs matter more? What doesn’t matter at all? What can you let slide? The hard part is that ...

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Washington state is poised to become the next state to ban most pre-employment drug tests for cannabis. As detection of THC is a poor way to measure impairment, given how long cannabis stays in the ...

For some incoming city employees in Atlanta, a drug test will no longer be a prerequisite for the job. That is thanks to an executive order issued earlier this month by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A bill passed by Washington’s House of Representatives on Wednesday aims to make Washington the third U.S. state to ban pre-employment marijuana tests. The bill, sponsored by ...

CLEVELAND — Marijuana is now officially legal in Ohio, which comes one month after voters passed Issue 2 during the November general election. Now, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb has announced the city ...

With medical marijuana now legal in three-fourths of all states, some long-term care employers say that pre-employment testing is weeding out otherwise ideal job candidates. They’re reconsidering ...

The Laborers’ International Union of North America Local 955 is urging the city to end pre-employment drug testing as part of its contract negotiations leading up to the fiscal year 2024 budgeting ...

Employers in Washington who engage in pre-employment drug testing must re-evaluate their drug testing programs based on a new Washington law effective January 1, 2024. On May 9, 2023, Governor Inslee ...

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A new report from Quest Diagnostics revealed that employees testing positive for fentanyl had surged 400 percent over the past five years. The percentage of employees in the general U.S. workforce who ...