Washington, D.C
Washington bill to stop firing of DC employees for failing tests for cannabis passes
Washington, D.C.’s metropolis council unanimously handed a invoice that will ban employers from firing employees that fail assessments for hashish.
If authorized by the town’s Mayor Muriel Bowser, the Hashish Employment Protections Modification Act of 2022, would additionally cease employers from refusing to rent an worker whether it is discovered they use hashish for leisure functions or use it for medicinal functions.
As NPR reported, exceptions to those guidelines embody appearing beneath federal tips on the a part of the employer, or if an worker is discovered to have consumed hashish whereas on responsibility.
The invoice’s language states that it additionally prohibits the “possession, storage, supply, switch, show, transportation, sale, buy, or rising of hashish on the worker’s place of employment.”