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Weed the people? Companies relax drug-testing policies in bid to attract more workers
Near-full employment and changing attitudes about cannabis are prompting some companies to drop pre-employment drug screenings for marijuana, experts in human resources say. "It is happening," said Brian Kropp, group vice president at Gartner's HR practice. "In all the conversations we've been having with executives about this issue, more and more of them are dropping it," he said.
According to attorney James Reidy, chair of the labor and employment group at the law firm of Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, an increasingly common viewpoint among employers is: "It's an artificial barrier to employment. ... It's no different than having a beer Sunday night."
[...] A 2011 survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management found that 57 percent of employers conducted drug tests on all job candidates, a number which likely has fallen since then, extrapolations from smaller studies suggest. A Colorado survey conducted by the Mountain States Employers Council (now called the Employers Council) in 2014, the year the state legalized marijuana for recreational adult use, found that 77 percent of employers said they conducted drug testing, a figure that fell to 62 percent three years later.
Also at Southeast Missourian (AP).
(Score: 3, Touché) by knarf on Tuesday May 08 2018, @11:31AM (5 children)
> I do stuff that is top secret... well sort of beyond that.
...and you're posting about the fact in an open forum on the intertubes...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @02:15PM (2 children)
Nah, it's just the prez posting AC, exaggerating again... He doesn't even know how to work his Cap'n Crunch decoder ring
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @02:35PM (1 child)
He's just a writer for this website [abovetopsecret.com].
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday May 08 2018, @04:28PM
You mean contributor? That link goes to a French database under the reddit-like RIPE.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday May 08 2018, @02:42PM
The fact that you might do classified stuff is not, in and of itself, classified. I've seen, done, read, and heard classified stuff. Probably most all of it has been declassified in the past 35 years, but I've never checked. I can tell you that I was here, or there, on such and such a date. There is no law broken, unless, and until, I start flapping my gums about the actual secrets.
So, GP does super-duper-top-secret shitzls. And, what did you figure out about his super-duper-top-secret secrets from his post above? Absolutely nothing.
If I were to guess, being a Soylentil, he probably knows all about the spies from the Galactic Federation, and has probably attended far-more-than-secret meetings somewhere in the Andromeda galaxy, where conditions for humans being allowed outside the solar playpen were discussed. Then again, he may just empty the chamber pot for the president.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday May 08 2018, @07:12PM
Do you dare to suggest the president cannot tweet classified secrets!
I guess he would have to resort to announcing them in a press conference. Or calling in to FoxNews to reveal them.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.