It will soon be illegal for California employers to let workers’ off-site and outside-of-work marijuana use be a factor in hiring or firing decisions, according to a new state law. “Urine tests are a highly offensive invasion of workers’ personal bodily privacy,” said Dale Gieringer, director of California’s NORML chapter, which advocates for progressive marijuana policies, about the bill after it passed. “Workers should have the same right to use cannabis as to use other legal substances off the job.”I am happy to say my bill AB 2188 was signed by the @CAgovernor yesterday. I applaud the Governor for his commitment to redress the harms of cannabis prohibition. “For too many Californians, the promise of cannabis legalization remains out of reach,” Newsom said in a statement.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 20, 2022 08:58 UTC