Subject category:
Ethics and Social Responsibility
Published by:
NeilsonJournals Publishing
Length: 3 pages
Data source: Published sources
Abstract
Drug use in the workplace can pose legal and ethical challenges for employers and their employees. In this case, Fred is a long-term employee of the James Bay Logging (JBL) Company who recently returned to the workplace after extensive cancer treatment. Back on the job, he experienced debilitating joint pain, a side effect of his treatments. Fred's decision to self-medicate with marijuana for pain management poses risks for people and property in his position as a logging truck operator and a moral dilemma for his employer with their zero-tolerance drug policy. The purpose of this case is for students to examine the competing interests a company faces in trying to fairly enforce their drug policy in the context of medical marijuana in the workplace and showing care and compassion to a long-term employee who violated this policy. This case study has been peer reviewed by the editorial board of the Journal of Business Ethics Education (JBEE).
Subject category:
Ethics and Social Responsibility
Published by:
NeilsonJournals Publishing
Length: 8 pages
Data source: Published sources
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Abstract
Drug use in the workplace can pose legal and ethical challenges for employers and their employees. In this case, Fred is a long-term employee of the James Bay Logging (JBL) Company who recently returned to the workplace after extensive cancer treatment. Back on the job, he experienced debilitating joint pain, a side effect of his treatments. Fred's decision to self-medicate with marijuana for pain management poses risks for people and property in his position as a logging truck operator and a moral dilemma for his employer with their zero-tolerance drug policy. The purpose of this case is for students to examine the competing interests a company faces in trying to fairly enforce their drug policy in the context of medical marijuana in the workplace and showing care and compassion to a long-term employee who violated this policy. This case study has been peer reviewed by the editorial board of the Journal of Business Ethics Education (JBEE).
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Subject category:
Ethics and Social Responsibility
Published by:
NeilsonJournals Publishing
Length: 8 pages
Data source: Published sources