DRUG TESTING POLICIES
Are they being relaxed by companies
in a 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 HR say. 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. A Colorado survey conducted by the Mountain States 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.
