Pot Firing Worth $5K Penalty

A federal labour arbitrator has ordered Canadian National Railway Co. to pay $5,000 in damages to an employee fired for using marijuana a day before his shift. “Flimsy,” the arbitrator ruled: “I find it difficult to accept the company could possibly believe it had grounds to dismiss.”

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