Toronto Partner Mathias Link comments on rules surrounding employees’ recreational marijuana use in an article published in Human Resources Director.
He explains that since the legalization of recreational cannabis in 2018, it has become more complicated for employers to enforce workplace substance use policies and why it is therefore crucial to have clear policies in place.
“Employers are obligated to provide their employees with a safe workplace under occupational health and safety legislation. That means [employees] must be fit, both physically and cognitively, to work, and they must be able to work safely. And an employer has an obligation to protect other employees from workplace hazards, and a workplace hazard can be an employee who is impaired due to drugs and alcohol,” said Partner Mathias Link.
