Amazon released a new statement elaborating on its decision to remove drug testing as a condition of pre-employment, as well as its support of certain cannabis-related legislation. In a blog post on ...

Amazon, the second-largest employer in the country, now supports legalizing weed nationwide and says most job applicants will no longer be drug tested for cannabis. Certain employees regulated by the ...

Amazon says that with only certain exceptions, it will now treat marijuana use the same as alcohol and will stop testing its employees for the substance as part of its drug testing policy. This change ...

Amazon is further relaxing its screening policies for marijuana, as it ramps up support for federal legislation to legalize the drug. In a blog post Tuesday, Amazon HR boss Beth Galetti wrote that the ...

A New York City man is suing Amazon for its policy to weed out new hires — arguing it was illegal to rescind a job offer after he tested positive for marijuana on a drug test. In the lawsuit, Michael ...

In today's workplace landscape, drug testing policies vary widely across industries and regions, reflecting both legal complexities and corporate cultures. So, we decided to take a deep dive into the ...

Why do companies use pre-employment drug testing? There are three circumstances in which workers encounter drug tests during the hiring process. The first is when workers have applied for jobs subject ...

In 2019, Jared* was set to move across the country to start a new job at a clean-energy company. After he accepted the offer, the company told him he'd need to take a drug test, a requirement he says ...

As people begin to filter back into the office after a year-and-a-half in Zoom exile, the growing ranks of recreational cannabis users might want to take a peek at their employee handbook before ...

Amazon certainly wasn’t the first major corporation to arrive at the cannabis reform party, but it sure made one of the biggest entrances to-date when it publicly pledged to relax its drug testing ...