Amazon says that with some exceptions to a few exceptions, it will now be necessary to treat marijuana to use the same as alcohol and cease to test its employees for the substance as part of its drug test policy. This change will apply to workers in the United States in light of “when state laws are moving”, according to Amazon, which says that change will not apply to workers in positions regulated by the service of the service. transport.
Amazon has announced some changes directed by its US employees Tuesday, indicating that it will make some adjustments to the task policy, namely that it will average it over a longer period to return to the spirit of the program. The company has formulated these ads with its goal of being “the best employer of the earth” and “the safest place of the land at work”.
According to the company, its Time Off Task Policy was mainly achieved to determine whether there is a question with the tools used by the employees, indicating that the identification of underperforming workers is its “secondary” objective.
Change follows criticism that included allegations of workers who asserted that the policy of the task contained has led to skipping bathroom breaks or avoid first aid on worries about the discipline to stay too long. Amazon has recently been back in the news cycle on the statements that some employees have resorted to EEP bottles.
In addition, Amazon says he revised his drug testing policy for most American workers, saying in a recent post of blog:
The company notes that this will carry out impairment controls during work, however, and that marijuana and alcohol will be tested to track all incidents. It is not known how society plans to determine whether a worker who consumes cannabis has been altered at work, however – marijuana remains notoriously in its system well beyond its duration of its psychoactive effects, which means that someone can Test positive for the drug without any disability.
