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OSHA Updates Guidance on Safety Incentive Programs and Drug Testing

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued updated enforcement guidance on the role of post-incident drug testing and safety incentive programs under the agency’s anti-retaliation rule. The new interpretation widens the scope of permissible programs under the rule, which should provide some comfort to employers who have expressed concern that long-running workplace safety Read more

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Maine Employees Can't Be Fired for Using Marijuana Outside of Work

Reminder to Maine employers! Starting February 1, 2018, employees and applicants aged 21 and over are protected from discrimination on the basis of their marijuana usage outside of the workplace. Under state law, employers cannot refuse to employ a person “solely” on the basis of their “consuming marijuana outside of the… employer’s… property.” Schools and Read more