March 14, 2019
Walmart was recently found to have flouted Arizona's medical marijuana law when it fired a worker with a positive drug test even though she legally smoked cannabis for medicinal purposes, and AT&T was recently found to have used an invalid waiver that blocked a laid-off employee from lodging age discrimination claims. Here, Law360 looks at these and another notable employment litigation development from the first quarter of 2019.
February 08, 2019
An Arizona federal judge chided Walmart Inc. for having a "'complete and bright line' disregard" for anti-discrimination protections in the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act when it fired an employee who has been prescribed medical marijuana, but was not proven to be impaired on the job.