A new bill in California will prevent companies from punishing workers who fail a test that looks into whether they've recently used marijuana.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California could soon become the seventh state to make sure people won’t lose their jobs if they smoke marijuana when they are off the clock.
The legislation would prevent workers from being punished from failing these types of drug tests. Companies could still punish employees for failing other types of tests that use saliva and are better at determining if a person is currently high. “Nothing in this bill would allow someone to come high,” said Assemblymember Bill Quirk, a Democrat from Hayward and the author of the bill.California was the first state to legalize medical marijuana in 1996, and it was one of the first states to legalize recreational marijuana in 2016. But the state has been slow to pass laws protecting workers who use marijuana on their own time.
Labor unions argue it isn’t fair to punish employees for doing something that is legal outside of their job and doesn’t interfere with their responsibilities at work.
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