I got my doctors recomendation today for medical cannabis. I talked to my attorney last Friday and I am set. If they fire me, I’ll be leaving with a big bag of cash when I file my discrimination lawsuit. I just hope that I don’t suffer from some sort of depression or my anxiety gets worse because of them descriminating again me. Otherwise I might have to add that to the suit as well.
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Its all under the ADA, americans with disabilities act. If you need medical marijuanna for treatment, Devon must make a reasonable accomodation for you to continue performing work. However they could reassign you to a job where you dont operate a vehicle, machinery, or any position where you could endanger yourself or others.
Basically they may promote you to a VP job where you sit behind a desk all day in the glass cathedral. LOL sweet..
Good luck PROVING the reason for their termination.
Employment is at will, so one can be terminated without any explanation.
Devon terminates employment on a regular basis.
Ole Perry aka internet attorney should know that public Companies will be held in accordance with the public policy. The public policy exception says that an employee is wrongfully discharged when the termination violates an existing, well-established public policy of the state. In this case the SQ 788 establishes the public policy of that state and prohibits companies that are not federal contractors, which Devon or any other energy company in OK is not, from terminating their employers based solely on a positive test or for use unles they are impaired at work. A positive test does not prove impairment but rather shows that the person was a user at some point up to 30 days ago. Devon or any other energy company will be caught in a lawsuit and they will lose due to the wording in the new law. And yes it will be in the best interest of the employer to not be added to a class action case but rather take them on directly. You can sue for far more than discrimination in a case like this one.
Good luck to Devon getting broadcasted in the media for terminating an employee for them following their medical doctors recommendations on choose of medication. That will be a disgrace when they have to admit that they still allow employees to take amphedamiens, opiates, and barbiturates prescription d--g but terminate employment for THC. Knowing that both were recommended by their doctors. That’s just what we need is to be made a national spectacle don’t we have bigger issues like maybe our SWD’s.
Class action cases.... LOL!
Where the cases drag on forever.
The lawyers get most of the money, IF they win and the clients stand to only win peanuts, while losing their job and putting their careers at risk, because big companies talk to each other and warn against hiring those persons who love filing lawsuits.
Just an FYI but the ACLU of Oklahoma has openly stated they will be taking class action cases against companies that discriminate against their employers for using medical cannabis. You can contact Ryan Kiessel for more information.
You ambulance chasing internet tough guys claiming they are going to bring lawsuits against Devon are hilarious.
Good luck finding an attorney willing to take your case on a contingency basis.
I had to look this up to verify. You have got to be kidding me. We just laid off valuable employees in order to save money and improve out stock but we just donated $100,000 to a cause that anyone in their right mind would have known that it was going to pass. SMH this just shows you that whoever is making decisions here is making decisions based on bias opinions. We are all screwed.
After talking to my attorney today, SQ 788 creates a protected class and there is some specific language in the state question that most other states do not have. It’s my attorneys opinion that since Devon is a public ally traded company and is not a Federal contractor, they don’t have any choice but to follow state law in this case and they will end up loosing a discrimination law suit if they violate the new State Law. All I need to do now is find a doctor.
This is what kills me. People in these comments. Lol. I’m not working next to a d--ggie in the field. News flash you already are. If anyone shows up to work high they will be fired. Just as soon as if you went to lunch and pounded beers. Don’t be an id--t. But better believe that if you get hurt at work, they will d--g test you so fast. And if you fail, no workers comp.
Just as many companies in Colorado and other legal states do, they follow federal law. Not state. If you pop hot while at work and they can tell, you will be escorted off the property.
Those who think it’s for ski bums need to jump off a cliff and do us all a favor. This plant saves lives.
I know of a minimum of a dozen people who already smoke on their own time. And you know what, at work most get exceeds or exceptional YOY.
What’s crazy is that people think that we will now be smoking. I swear there hasn’t been dozens of us already doing it for years and working right next to you.
“Move to Colorado and be a ski bum”. Really? So someone smokes a joint to relieve pain, anxiety, PTSD, sleep problem, etc and they are a bum, but get a prescription for Lortab, Prozac, Aderral, Xanax, Hydrocodone, Oxycodone, etc and they are just co-workers huh? You are truly the definition of an id--t and the reason why there will be those that get paid for discrimination lawsuits.
Yes there is going to be some who get it just to be high but there are others that will be taking it to help with their medical conditions. Everyone needs to educate themselves as there is no difference between going home and smoking a joint and drinking a few beers. What you do in your own home is no concern of mine. Being impaired at work for d--gs or alcohol or those other hundreds of prescriptions that are legal is the same thing. They don’t have a place in the workforce but again what you do at home I don’t care.
Delusional. You get d--g tested for whatever reason, they find thc in your blood, you fired.
Im not working next to a pothead in the field. You show up impaired, your greatest threat is not Devon. It is your p-ss-d coworkers
Move to colorado and be a ski bum.
Anyone else find it hilarious that they donated $100,000 to try to defeat SQ 788. Only to loose all of that and then the whole public find out about your donation. They should have saved some of that for my lawsuit if they try to terminate me when I fail their d--g test.
Lol. Everyone thinks people are going to come to work impaired. That’s not the case at all. We are going to be impaired at home. Where it’s legal. I’m one of you too and will be filing the same lawsuit if they try to do something stupid.
They will laugh at you. You show up to work high your fired just as if you showed up to work pilled out. Or better yet on legal alcohol. No one cares a zip what you do on your own time.
If you have nothing to say, why say it?