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Home 🌿 Cannabis Jobs 🌿 Last Word: A Telling Survey About Whether Managers Will Hire Cannabis Users 🌿Last Word: A Telling Survey About Whether Managers Will Hire Cannabis Users
Here’s something that might have gotten lost in the usual end-of-the-year scramble: Employers are a lot tougher on employees in states where marijuana is completely legal.
We know this because the Society of Human Resource Management — the trade group for more than 260,000 HR professionals — surveyed more than 600 HR managers in states where marijuana is legal, and they focused on the drug policies of the organizations they work for.
As Bloomberg News reported, “Unsurprisingly, getting stoned at work is largely frowned upon, SHRM found …. It turns out a large chunk of workplaces also won’t hire employees who smoke on their own time.”
The story goes on to say that, “More than half of the HR managers surveyed said they have policies, or plan to implement them, restricting the employment of marijuana users. About 38 percent said they will flat-out reject users even if they claim medical reasons....
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