{"id":1695,"date":"2018-10-02T20:50:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2018-10-02T20:50:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:50:51","slug":"un-juez-dictamina-que-el-empresario-no-esta-obligado-a-permitir-el-consumo-de-marihuana-a-sus-empleados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/2018\/10\/judge-rules-employer-does-not-have-to-permit-employees-marijuana-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Un juez dictamina que el empresario no tiene que permitir el consumo de marihuana de un empleado"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal judge ruled a Bridgeton glass factory can indefinitely suspend a worker because he uses medical marijuana. <\/p>\n

The worker, Daniel Cotto Jr., sued Ardagh Glass after the employer did not allow him to return to his job as a forklift operator after a workplace accident<\/a> in November of 2016. Court documents show Cotto hit his head on the roof of a forklift at the factory.<\/p>\n

When Cotto wanted to come back to work, Ardagh would not let him because he could not pass a drug test. Cotto said he uses marijuana, which was prescribed by a doctor, to deal with pain from a \u201csevere neck and back injury\u201d he sustained in 2007.<\/p>\n

Cotto argued Ardagh violated the New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act (CUMMA), which legalized the drug for medicinal reasons. Ardagh argued marijuana is still illegal under federal law.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is plain that CUMMA does not require Ardagh Glass to [waive its requirement Cotto pass a drug test],\u201d the judge said. \u201cArdagh Glass is within its rights to refuse to waive a drug test for federally prohibited narcotics.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Jersey\u2019s law states it should not be \u201cconstrued to require . . . an employer to accommodate the medical use of marijuana in any workplace,\u201d the judge added. Cotto has worked at the factory since 2011 and claimed Ardagh knew he took prescription medicine when he was hired.<\/p>\n

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Un juez federal ha dictaminado que una f\u00e1brica de vidrio de Bridgeton puede suspender indefinidamente a un trabajador por consumir marihuana con fines m\u00e9dicos. El trabajador, Daniel Cotto Jr., demand\u00f3 a Ardagh Glass despu\u00e9s de que la empresa no le permitiera reincorporarse a su puesto de trabajo como conductor de carretilla elevadora tras un accidente laboral ocurrido en noviembre de 2016. Los documentos judiciales revelan que Cotto choc\u00f3\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[389,391,394,390,392,393],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bridgeton","tag-cumma","tag-forklift-operator","tag-medical-marijuana","tag-new-jersey-compassionate-use-medical-marijuana-act","tag-workplace-accident"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}