New York employers are banned from testing most workers for marijuana

New York state employers will no longer be allowed to test employees for cannabis, according to new regulations released by the state Department of Labor.

This makes New York the first state in the country to prohibit employers from testing both current and prospective workers.

In other states where marijuana is legal, there are laws that ban employers from penalizing workers who test positive, but this is the first regulation to explicitly prohibit workplace testing for cannabis altogether.