MMAR and employment laws

[pho]

Can't afford a lawyer and want to know if an employer can fire you if you smoke at work.

Health Canada just gives canned responses, Human Rights tribunals and government lines just give canned responses and everyone in between says to ask a lawyer.

Does anyone know if an employer can fire you over using your medicine at work? Been wanting to know for a year but could never find an answer, and I can't afford a lawyer.

 

[beanja]

Call one , a lawyer that is. Its free to ask.....
Employer can do what he wants to a degree. He could say your ass was lazy and always showed up late so i fired him..lol

 

[vukman]

Can't afford a lawyer and want to know if an employer can fire you if you smoke at work.

Health Canada just gives canned responses, Human Rights tribunals and government lines just give canned responses and everyone in between says to ask a lawyer.

Does anyone know if an employer can fire you over using your medicine at work? Been wanting to know for a year but could never find an answer, and I can't afford a lawyer.

That is a grey area but the employer can always say that because of your medicine, you have either become non-productive or creating an unsafe environment for yourself or others around you.

It would all come down to what the courts say and we know that until medical marijuana is fully 100% accepted by every governing body, criminal and medical, you really don't have too much of a leg to stand on.

I don't like it and I hate to be the one saying it but.......unfortunately marijuana is still considered a 'illegal/illicit drug'. For as many advocates you can bring to the stand, the prosecution could bring ten times more against you...

Maybe one day things will change but until then, I'm afraid that it's up to the employer's discretion........

Good Luck

 

[teemu shalanie]

Imo it the boss's call. I wouldnt be flaunting my med status at work, go for a drive at lunch ?, what the dont know wont hurt them , but more importantly u
TS

 

[JRace]

If your work specificly prohibits marijuana use ten they can legally fire you even if your legal.
In the paperwork it states that policies and bylaws will superceed the MMAR.

As previously stated if your boss doesn't want you medicating then they could fire you for any reason, or no reason and pay you severence.

I would personally never tell my employer or any other employee, however my work is known for being douce-bags.

 

[pho]

Told my employer last year and have a modified contract allowing me to use brownies but not smoke. Smoking helps way more so it sucks, brownies just get me super stoned.

Guess I'll suck it up. Sucks to legitimately need it but get treated like a junky. Doc is willing to give me hundreds of percs without batting a lash and my employer even asked if I could ask for a different pain killer. They'd let me get wasted, but not take a few tokes top be ultra productive. What a shame.

 

[Tweetybird]

That is a grey area but the employer can always say that because of your medicine, you have either become non-productive or creating an unsafe environment for yourself or others around you.

It would all come down to what the courts say and we know that until medical marijuana is fully 100% accepted by every governing body, criminal and medical, you really don't have too much of a leg to stand on.

I don't like it and I hate to be the one saying it but.......unfortunately marijuana is still considered a 'illegal/illicit drug'. For as many advocates you can bring to the stand, the prosecution could bring ten times more against you...

Maybe one day things will change but until then, I'm afraid that it's up to the employer's discretion........

Good Luck

Vukman is right. Don't smoke at work unless you want trouble.