Amazon recently announced that they plan to stop drug testing many positions for marijuana. But they aren't stopped there, they also plan to join the movement by actively lobbying Congress to end marijuana prohibition across the country.
Amazon recently announced that they plan to stop drug testing many positions for marijuana. But they aren't stopped there, they also plan to join the movement by actively lobbying Congress to end marijuana prohibition across the country.
The company posted the following to its news site:
"In the past, like many employers, we've disqualified people from working at Amazon if they tested positive for marijuana use. However, given where state laws are moving across the U.S., we've changed course. We will no longer include marijuana in our comprehensive drug screening program for any positions not regulated by the Department of Transportation, and will instead treat it the same as alcohol use. We will continue to do impairment checks on the job and will test for all drugs and alcohol after any incident.
And because we know that this issue is bigger than Amazon, our public policy team will be actively supporting The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2021 (MORE Act), federal legislation that would legalize marijuana at the federal level, expunge criminal records, and invest in impacted communities. We hope that other employers will join us, and that policymakers will at swiftly to pass this law"
This is huge news, as Amazon is one of the US's largest employers, and their workforce stretches across every state. Now more workers will feel free to apply without fear of abrupt termination due to a drug that is legal for recreational use in a growing number of states. This is a wise move overall, as Amazon has previously faced lawsuits from workers fired for using legal, medicinal marijuana.
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