High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up for University

Re:High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads... by StudentStuff on Thursday April 26, 2018 @09:05PM (#16937573)

Still too broad a range, smoking some weed at 7pm doesn't necessarily make you unsafe at 7am. Zero tolerance is unrealistic and unnecessary for most jobs that drug test.

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Re:High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads... by PC_LOAD_LETTER on Friday April 27, 2018 @01:16AM (#16938594)

There's not another viable test though that can act on a shorter window than that. Companies aren't out of line for not wanting their employees to be working while under the influence of marijuana - the problem isn't that they're being too strict ('zero tolerance'), it's that they don't have a granular test that would suffice.

That, plus marijuana is still illegal in most states. Whatever your personal conviction may be, businesses aren't in the business to turn the blind eye to illegal substance use. They're on the hook for liability.

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Re:High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads... by nmcfarl on Friday April 27, 2018 @10:20AM (#16940911)

> plus marijuana is still illegal in most states

NPR recently pointed out that if you include medical marijuana this is no where close to true with it being legal in 29 states: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis_by_U.S....

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