Lunch & Learn: What Employers Need to Know About Marijuana in the Workplace

April 20, 2026 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (CDT)

Description

Join Holmes Murphy, Stinson, and Waypoint Mutual for a collaborative discussion on how to reconcile these emerging challenges, maintain a productive workforce, and build a defensible strategy for an evolving landscape that is still being defined by courts and regulators alike. 

As marijuana laws evolve, employers find themselves navigating a complex intersection of safety, legal ambiguity, and financial risk. This panel brings together expert viewpoints from safety compliance, employment law, and Work Comp claims management to explore the friction between state-level legalization and federal mandates. 

The panel will dive into the specific challenges of managing modern drug screening protocols: including the legalities of pre-employment testing, “reasonable suspicion” documentation, and post-accident procedures -against the backdrop of OSHA standards and FMCSA policies. Crucially, the conversation will address the downstream impact on insurance, focusing on how these workplace decisions influence workers’ compensation liability, claim denials, and the rising costs of employer defense. 

By examining these present risks, the panel provides a clear framework for updating workplace policies that protect both DOT-regulated and general workforce employees in an era of unprecedented change. 

Lunch will be provided