Reply To: CAN CANNABIS USERS BE FIRED?

[Anna Peal]

What we need to take int account is that a Zero Tolerance policy is not always justified under the circumstances. In this case the employee was not in a safety sensitive job. Therefore, it is questionable that the Zero Tolerance policy should have applied to her. If her job did not require her to go to high-risk areas of the business, there was no reason to object to the employee having residual cannabis in her system