| Summary: Effective July 2, 2019, the Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act amends the Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act adopted in 2009. The amended bill contains new protections for employees. Specifically, the amendments prohibit employers from taking any "adverse employment action" against an employee who is a "registered qualifying patient" based "solely on the employee's status as a registrant with the commission." Further, the amendments provide workers with the right to explain positive drug test results.
However, the law does not restrict employers from prohibiting, or taking "adverse employment actions" against employees for possession or use of intoxicating substances "during work hours or on the premises of the workplace outside of work hours." Further, the law's employee protections are not to be deemed to "require an employer to commit any act that would cause the employer to be in violation of federal law, that would result in the loss of a licensing-related benefit pursuant to federal law, or that would result in the loss of a federal contract or federal funding."
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| Impact(s): New Jersey employers |
| Summary: Effective August 1, 2019, the new law will require employers to remove the criminal question from their job applications in order to allow job applicants to be considered based on their qualifications before any criminal information is considered.
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| Impact(s): Oakland County, Missouri employers |
