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Gary Savine Featured in Illinois Bar Journal on Recreational Cannabis and the Workplace

Employment, Firm News, Marijuana

We’re pleased to share that Gary Savine, principal, Savine Employment Law, Ltd. was featured in the January, 2020 cover story of the Illinois Bar Journal on the topic of recreational cannabis.

The article, “Ready or Not, Cannabis Is Here,” by Ed Finkel, covers the myriad of legal issues raised by the availability of legal, recreational cannabis.

On the employment law side, Gary covered whether employers’ drug testing policies need to be changed, how employers might handle use of cannabis by employees outside the workplace, random and pre-employment drug testing, and his predictions for the future of employment litigation in this fast-changing area.

If you have access, you can read the entire article here.

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Gary Savine is an Illinois employment lawyer and founder of Savine Employment Law, Ltd. in Chicago. Gary regularly advises human resources professionals on recently enacted employment laws.

Gary Savine is the Co-Founder of Savine Employment Law, Ltd. in Chicago. We help Illinois employers clear away compliance confusion and conflict and manage their workplace profitably.

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