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Byline: STATE LEGISLATURE By David Steves The Register-Guard
SALEM - Businesses and medical marijuana patients faced off Wednesday over competing bills aimed at rebalancing each group's workplace rights.
Employers pushed legislation during a hearing that would expand their legal rights to prohibit the use of medical marijuana in the workplace.
Patients, who oppose those bills, urged the House Business and Labor Committee to instead pass legislation prohibiting on-the-job discrimination based on a worker's status as a medical marijuana user. It prevents employers from acting against workers who are medical marijuana cardholders for smoking pot off the work site during nonwork hours.
