Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives

Please join Hunton Andrews Kurth’s workplace safety attorneys for a complimentary webinar on Tuesday, October 29.  Our team will provide a complimentary CLE, A Year in Occupational Safety and Health Law - Workplace Violence, Heat, Marijuana, HazCom and More.

Please join Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP for a complimentary webinar:

Up In Smoke – Cannabis and the Workplace

Thursday, October 19, 2023

12:00–1:00 pm ET

11:00 am–12:00 pm CT

9:00–10:00 am PT

On September 18, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill (“AB”) 2188, which prohibits employer discrimination based on employees’ use of cannabis off the job and away from the workplace.  While recreational use of cannabis, or marijuana, has been legal in California since 2016, the new law goes farther in specifically providing protections for employees who consume the substance.  AB 2188 makes California the most recent state to provide workplace protections for use of marijuana away from the workplace.  The bill will become effective beginning January 1, 2024.