News

In the first decision by any state supreme court requiring employers to accommodate medijuana users, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court last week ruled that violations of federal drug laws alone don't make a requested accommodation unreasonable.

The gripping tale of how granting one obvious accommodation request can legitimize other seemingly unreasonable accommodation requests: Employer in West Virginia to pay hundreds of thousands in back pay for not accommodating an employee's religious-based request to punch in without using the company's new biometric time clocks.

Florida now joins with Hawaii, see HRS 329-122(c)(2)(B), and supreme courts in California, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Colorado, ensuring medijuana laws do not change or undermine employers' rights to enforce drug free workplace policies.