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Pennsylvania warehouse worker demoted and forced to take 50% pay cut due to medical marijuana card

Pennsylvania warehouse worker demoted and forced to take 50% pay cut due to medical marijuana card

The company denied discriminating against Longenecker, and told him he could return to work ‘in a position that would not require him to operate power equipment,’ MorningCall reported A Pennsylvania supermarket warehouse worker was punished by his employer with a demotion and a 50% pay cut after it was discovered that he was taking medical

The company denied discriminating against Longenecker, and told him he could return to work ‘in a position that would not require him to operate power equipment,’ MorningCall reported

A Pennsylvania supermarket warehouse worker was punished by his employer with a demotion and a 50% pay cut after it was discovered that he was taking medical marijuana.

Blake Longenecker was working at Weis Markets distribution center located 16 South Industrial Park Road in Milton, Pennsylvania, when he says his legal medical marijuana card fell out of his wallet.

Longenecker claims that after his marijuana use became unintentionally known at work, the company sent him home for five days. He was then demoted to a different role at the supermarket and was forced to take a drastic pay cut.

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