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The e-commerce companyโs public policy team will be actively supporting The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2021 (MORE Act), which seeks to legalize marijuana at the federal level, its consumer boss Dave Clark said in a blog post.
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| Workers at Amazon will only be made to undergo testing for marijuana use in the event of an incident David Becker AFP |
Amazon.com said it supports a proposed U.S. legislation to legalise cannabis at the federal level, and would drop weed-testing requirements for some recruitments.
The e-commerce companyโs public policy team will be actively supporting The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2021 (MORE Act), which seeks to legalize marijuana at the federal level, its consumer boss Dave Clark said in a blog post.
Amazon will also no longer screen its job applicants for marijuana use for any positions not regulated by the Department of Transportation, Clark added.
While many U.S. states have legalized marijuana use, employers have so far largely refused to work with the industry as cannabis is still a classified substance at the federal level.
โIn the past, like many employers, weโve disqualified people from working at Amazon if they tested positive for marijuana use,โ Clark said. โHowever, given where state laws are moving across the U.S., weโve changed course.โ
Amazon was hit with a proposed class action suit, which claimed that the company was violating a New York City law by testing applicants for jobs at local facilities for marijuana, according to a Westlaw report. https://reut.rs/3uHPxM6
The company does not allow marijuana sales on its platform.
Amazon also said it is tweaking its worker productivity tracking tool, โTime off Task.โ
โStarting today, weโre now averaging Time off Task over a longer period to ensure that thereโs more signal and less noiseโreinforcing the original intent of the program,โ Clark said.
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