{"id":8400,"date":"2019-11-25T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=8400"},"modified":"2019-10-31T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T16:30:56","slug":"smoke-yet-to-clear-on-marijuana-and-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/smoke-yet-to-clear-on-marijuana-and-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke yet to clear on marijuana and the workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are entering a new era with the legalization of marijuana in Canada and how it affects the workplace.\u00a0 \u00a0As an employer, there is a responsibility to gain knowledge and stay informed on any changes that continue to occur as this evolves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/ca\/specialization\/employment-law\/smoke-yet-to-clear-on-marijuana-and-the-workplace\/180793\">Smoke yet to clear on marijuana and the workplace<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The employer&#8217;s decision to terminate was upheld, and although at the time of the accident in that case recreational marijuana use was still illegal, the arbitrator faced the same issues that are relevant today after legalization. &#8220;Namely, how do we determine whether there was just cause for dismissal when our tests cannot conclude whether an individual was impaired?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are entering a new era with the legalization of marijuana in Canada and how it affects the workplace.\u00a0 \u00a0As an employer, there is a responsibility to gain knowledge and stay informed on any changes that continue to occur as this evolves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i-cdn.embed.ly\/1\/display\/crop?height=300&key=fd92ebbc52fc43fb98f69e50e7893c13&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn-res.keymedia.com%2Fcms%2Fimages%2Fus%2F036%2F0223_637069048085876734.jpg&width=636","fifu_image_alt":"Smoke yet to clear on marijuana and the workplace","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[168,161,53,97],"class_list":{"0":"post-8400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-communication","10":"tag-humanresources","11":"tag-workplace"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8403,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions\/8403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}