People v. Salas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that public policy did not prohibit an arbitration award reinstating a truck driver who tested positive for marijuana twice
• holding that public policy did not prohibit an arbitration award reinstating a truck driver who tested positive for marijuana twice
• holding that federal law against use of drugs by transportation employees did not prevent enforcement of arbitration award to reinstate truck driver who had twice tested positive for marijuana
• noting that, although arbitration award reinstated an employee who had used drugs, the award did not condone drug use
• holding that when neither the governing statute nor regulation requires the discharge of a worker violating transportation safety laws for drug use, the High Court will not infer a public policy that goes beyond the statutory and regulatory scheme
• explaining that where parties send a matter to arbitration, “courts will set aside the arbitrator’s interpretation of what [an] agreement means only in rare instances”

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