{"id":2675,"date":"2019-10-15T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T20:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.employco.com\/blog\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2019-10-16T16:02:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T21:02:18","slug":"article-ban-on-pre-employment-marijuana-testing-to-impact-hr-policies-nationwide-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.employco.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/15\/article-ban-on-pre-employment-marijuana-testing-to-impact-hr-policies-nationwide-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"(Article) \u201cBan on pre-employment marijuana testing to impact HR policies nationwide, experts say&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Wilson, President of Employco USA,\u00a0was recently quoted in an article for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/work-drug-testing-1.36788514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amNewYork<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>A new law that bans most private companies in New York City from testing job applicants for marijuana as part of the hiring process may have an impact that reaches far past city limits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re going to see changes in employment policies across the country because for a national company it becomes too hard to have different HR policies, and then you run into discrimination issues if you\u2019re drug testing in New Jersey but not in New York,\u201d said Rob Wilson, president of the human resources firm Employco. \u201cThe last thing you want is a national drug policy and you\u2019re not on top of this law, you could find yourself with some big headaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The law doesn\u2019t go into effect until May 2020, which gives affected companies time to rework their policies, but Wilson said he\u2019s already seen a shift away from pre-employment drug testing as more states legalize medical and recreational use of the drug.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of our clients, they\u2019re adjusting their policies for after a\u00a0job has been accepted,\u201d he said. \u201cSo our clients that have zero tolerance are pretty much in the group [of exemptions], working at the airports or clients that have people driving vehicles for work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/work-drug-testing-1.36788514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow the link to read more<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/work-drug-testing-1.36788514\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.employco.com\/images\/blog\/Blog_amNewYork_logo.png\" alt=\"amNewYork Logo\" width=\"322\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more on this topic, please contact Rob Wilson at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:rwilson@thewilsoncompanies.com\">rwilson@thewilsoncompanies.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Wilson, President of Employco USA,\u00a0was recently quoted in an article for amNewYork: A new law that bans most private companies in New York City from testing job applicants for marijuana as part of the hiring process may have an&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.employco.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/15\/article-ban-on-pre-employment-marijuana-testing-to-impact-hr-policies-nationwide-experts-say\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employco-in-the-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Employco USA","author_link":"https:\/\/www.employco.com\/blog\/author\/employcousa\/"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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