WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
Mostly sunny and
pleasant
Sun and some
clouds
80° 54°
77° 52°
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
Partly sunny and
beautiful
Today
MONDAY
Intervals of clouds
and sun
Partly sunny and
warm
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
76° 56°
78° 57°
80° 54°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
82° 52°
85° 56°
PENDLETON
TEMPERATURE
LOW
72°
67°
91° (1900)
40°
43°
27° (2006)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
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0.06"
5.42"
8.21"
5.17"
Corvallis
71/45
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
75°
69°
92° (1937)
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Lo
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Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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WINDS
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Sunshine and patchy
clouds today. Mainly clear tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
today; pleasant. Partly cloudy tonight. Partly
sunny tomorrow.
Western Washington: Sunny to partly
cloudy today. Partly cloudy tonight. Mostly
cloudy tomorrow.
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Northern California: Clouds giving way to
sun at the coast today; plenty of sunshine
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National Summary: Severe storms are forecast from Texas to Illinois today with locally
gusty storms in the lower Great Lakes. Rain and mountain snow will linger over parts of the
central and southern Rockies.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 97° in Carrizo Springs, Texas
Low 21° in Truckee, Calif.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Hi
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76
90
72
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Hi
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85
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86
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82
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Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
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May 29
Hi
57
78
77
57
74
73
72
79
85
75
75
76
73
82
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80
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80
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81
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
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WORLD CITIES
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
75/43
5:40 a.m.
8:05 p.m.
11:47 p.m.
8:20 a.m.
First
Full
May 21
Caldwell
77/47
Medford
82/52
0.00"
0.00"
0.08"
4.05"
5.88"
4.07"
SUN AND MOON
May 15
Bend
77/47
Burns
74/40
PRECIPITATION
May 7
John Day
75/46
Ontario
80/47
37°
43°
25° (1954)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
Albany
73/44
Eugene
72/45
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
86° 54°
Spokane
Wenatchee
73/52
80/55
Tacoma
Moses
72/48
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 81/53
72/49
60/49
70/47
86/53
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
70/46
80/58 Lewiston
84/56
Astoria
80/55
57/49
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
77/51
Pendleton 73/45
The Dalles 85/56
80/54
83/55
La Grande
Salem
76/47
74/47
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
86° 57°
Seattle
72/49
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
81° 56°
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More businesses feeling mellow about hiring pot users
WASHINGTON (AP) —
FPI Management, a property
company in California,
wants to hire dozens of
people. Factories from New
Hampshire to Michigan need
workers. Hotels in Las Vegas
are desperate to fill jobs.
Those employers and
many others are quietly
taking what once would have
been a radical step: They’re
dropping marijuana from
the drug tests they require
of prospective employees.
Marijuana testing — a fixture
at large American employers
for at least 30 years —
excludes too many potential
workers, experts say, at a
time when filling jobs is
more challenging than it’s
been in nearly two decades.
“It has come out of
nowhere,” said Michael
Clarkson, head of the drug
testing practice at Ogletree
Deakins, a law firm. “I have
heard from lots of clients
things like, ‘I can’t staff the
third shift and test for mari-
juana.’”
Though still in its early
stages, the shift away from
marijuana testing appears
likely to accelerate. More
states are legalizing cannabis
for recreational use; Mich-
igan could become the 10th
state to do so in November.
Missouri appears on track
to become the 30th state to
allow medical pot use.
And medical marijuana
users in Massachusetts ,
Connecticut and Rhode
Island have won lawsuits in
the past year against compa-
nies that rescinded job offers
or fired workers because of
positive tests for cannabis.
Before last year, courts had
always ruled in favor of
employers.
The Trump administration
also may be softening its
resistance to legal marijuana.
Labor Secretary Alexander
Acosta suggested at a
congressional hearing last
month that employers should
take a “step back” on drug
testing.
“We have all these Amer-
icans that are looking to
work,” Acosta said. “Are we
aligning our ... drug testing
policies with what’s right for
the workforce?”
There is no definitive data
on how many companies
conduct drug tests, though the
Society for Human Resource
Management found in a
survey that 57 percent do so.
Nor is there any recent data
on how many have dropped
marijuana from mandatory
drug testing.
But interviews with hiring
executives,
employment
lawyers and agencies that
help employers fill jobs indi-
cate that dropping marijuana
testing is among the steps
more companies are taking
to expand their pool of appli-
cants to fill a near-record
level of openings.
Businesses are hiring
more
people
without
high school diplomas, for
example, to the point where
the unemployment rate for
non-high school graduates
has sunk more than a full
percentage point in the past
year to 5.5 percent. That’s
the steepest such drop for
any educational group over
that time. On Friday, the
government is expected to
report another robust jobs
report for April.
Excluding
marijuana
from testing marks the first
major shift in workplace drug
policies since employers
began regularly screening
applicants in the late 1980s.
They did so after a federal
law required that govern-
ment contractors maintain
drug-free workplaces. Many
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A person buys marijuana at the Essence cannabis
dispensary in Las Vegas.
private businesses adopted
their own mandatory drug
testing of applicants.
Most businesses that
have dropped marijuana
tests continue to screen for
cocaine, opiates, heroin
and other drugs. But James
Reidy, an employment
lawyer in New Hampshire,
says companies are thinking
harder about the types of
jobs that should realistically
require marijuana tests. If
a manufacturing worker,
for instance, isn’t driving a
forklift or operating indus-
trial machinery, employers
may deem a marijuana test
unnecessary.
“Employers are saying,
‘We have a thin labor pool,’
“Reidy said. “ ‘So are we
going to test and exclude a
whole group of people? Or
can we assume some risks, as
long as they’re not impaired
at work?’”
Yet many companies are
reluctant to acknowledge
publicly that they’ve dropped
marijuana testing.
“This is going to become
the new don’t ask, don’t tell,”
Reidy said.
In most states that
have legalized marijuana,
like Colorado, businesses
can still, if they wish, fire
workers who test positive.
On the other hand, Maine,
which also legalized the
drug, became the first state
to bar companies from firing
or refusing to hire someone
for using marijuana outside
work.
Companies in labor-inten-
sive industries — hoteliers
and home health care
providers and employers
with many warehouse and
assembly jobs — are most
likely to drop marijuana
testing. By contrast, busi-
nesses that contract with
the government or that are
in regulated industries,
like air travel, or that have
safety concerns involving
machinery, are continuing
marijuana tests, employment
lawyers say. Federal regu-
lations require the testing of
pilots, train operators and
other key transportation
workers.
Dropping
marijuana
testing is more common
among employers in the nine
states, along with the District
of Columbia, that have
legalized pot for recreational
use. An additional 20 states
allow marijuana for medical
use only. But historically low
unemployment is driving
change even where pot
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remains illegal.
After the Drug-Free
Workplace Act was enacted
in 1988, amid concerns
about cocaine use, drug
testing spread to most large
companies. All Fortune 500
companies now engage in
some form of drug testing,
according to Barry Sample,
a senior director at Quest
Diagnostics, one of the
largest testing firms.
In Denver, in a state with
just 3 percent unemployment,
10 percent of employers that
screen for drugs had dropped
marijuana as of 2016,
according to a survey by the
Employers Council, which
provides corporate legal and
human resources services.
“It’s because unemploy-
ment is virtually non-ex-
istent” in Colorado, said
Curtis Graves, a lawyer at
the council. “People cannot
afford to take a hard line
against off-duty marijuana
usage if they want to hire.”
That’s particularly true
in Colorado’s resort areas,
where hotels and ski lifts are
heavily staffed with young
workers, Graves said: “They
can lose their jobs and walk
across the street and get
another one.”
FPI, a property-manage-
ment firm in San Francisco
that employs 2,900 around
the country, from leasing
managers to groundskeepers,
has dozens of jobs listed on
online boards. Its ads say
applicants must pass a “full
background check and drug
screening.”
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