Now that cannabis is legal, do I have to hire potheads?

We have places of work in New York and New Jersey. Marijuana sales are now authorized in New Jersey, so do I have to employ the service of people today who smoke weed in NJ way too? Can I have various drug screening policies in unique areas?

Enable me be blunt below. You never have to retain the services of anybody that you really do not want to. You just can’t refuse to employ another person for a guarded motive. Employment regulations change condition-to-condition, so indeed, you are necessary to have procedures that comply with nearby legislation. That reported, in New York and New Jersey you are not authorized to examination for hashish, both pre-employment or with recent workforce. You may perhaps not take any adverse employment motion for use of cannabis exterior of do the job. However, you may acquire action for use on the task, or impairment on the job. How are companies intended to know if job functionality is impaired for the reason that of cannabis? Unless you have movie of them rolling a joint and firing up on the job, fantastic luck. Can you refuse to employ anyone simply because they stroll into the interview reeking of hashish? Excellent luck. I went for a wander in Central Park to acquire in some clean air, hard more than enough to discover in NYC and now unachievable from the hashish stench. Thank you, legislators.

I utilized for a position and was asked to remedy a bunch of issues by way of webcam — not to an interviewer, but just to be recorded. So I was basically speaking to myself. How lazy are human resources persons having that they can’t even exhibit up for a short interview?

You know, it’s so straightforward getting photographs at HR. Any person who complains about woke get the job done society mockingly states “oooh, we’re likely to report you to HR.” Just about every discuss exhibit host helps make pleasurable of HR. Television set demonstrates and movies mock HR. My mom mocks HR! You test sitting listening to unexciting candidates drone on and on, embellishing things they say they have carried out for work they can’t do. (Wow — that felt sooo superior.) The reality is that these online job boards have built the quantity of candidates crushing. So possibly we will need to employ the service of even much more HR persons (gasp!) or we insert a screening process at the starting of the approach to see who will come near to meriting a meeting. With . . . HR.

Gregory Giangrande has above 25 several years of encounter as a main human methods govt. Hear Greg Weds. at 9:35 a.m. on iHeartRadio 710 WOR with Len Berman and Michael Riedel. E-mail: [email protected]. Adhere to: GoToGreg.com and on Twitter: @GregGiangrande