# KRS § 218B.040: 218B.040 Employer not required to permit or accommodate use > Kentucky · Statutes · In force URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXVIII_C218B_S218B.040 ## Section - **Citation:** KRS § 218B.040 - **Heading:** 218B.040 Employer not required to permit or accommodate use - **Jurisdiction:** Kentucky - **Kind:** Statutes - **Status:** In force - **Text as of:** August 14, 2026 - **Source:** Compiled text - **Location:** KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 218B / Section 218B.040 ## Text 218B.040 Employer not required to permit or accommodate use. (1) Nothing in this chapter shall: (a) Require an employer to permit or accommodate the use, consumption, possession, transfer, display, transportation, distribution, sale, or growing of medicinal cannabis in the workplace; (b) Prohibit an employer from implementing policies promoting workplace health and safety by: 1. Restricting the use of medicinal cannabis by employees; or 2. Restricting or prohibiting the use of equipment, machinery, or power tools by an employee who is a registered qualified patient, if the employer believes that the use of such equipment, machinery, or power tools by an employee who is a registered qualified patient poses an unreasonable safety risk; (c) Prohibit an employer from including in any contract provisions that prohibit the use of medicinal cannabis by employees; (d) Permit a cause of action against an employer for wrongful discharge or discrimination; (e) Except as provided in KRS 218B.045, prohibit a person, employer, corporation, or any other entity who occupies, owns, or controls a property from prohibiting or otherwise regulating the use, consumption, possession, transfer, display, transportation, sale, or growing of medicinal cannabis on or in that property; (f) Prohibit an employer from establishing and enforcing a drug testing policy, drug-free workplace, or zero-tolerance drug policy; or (g) Prohibit an employer from exercising his or her ability to determine impairment of an employee who is a cardholder. Good faith determinations of impairment permitted under this paragraph shall include behavioral assessments of impairment and a secondary step of testing an employee who is a cardholder for the presence of cannabis by an established method. If an employer determines, pursuant to KRS 218B.015(2)(c), that an employee who is a cardholder is impaired by the use of cannabis from the behavioral assessment and testing, the burden of proving non-impairment shall shift to the employee to refute the findings of the employer. (2) An employee who is discharged from employment for consuming medicinal cannabis in the workplace, working while under the influence of medicinal cannabis, or testing positive for a controlled substance shall not be eligible to receive benefits under KRS Chapter 341, if such actions are in violation of an employment contract or established personnel policy. (3) An employer shall not be penalized or denied any benefit under state law for employing a cardholder. ## Nearby sections - [KRS § 218B.010 218B.010 Definitions for chapter](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXVIII_C218B_S218B.010.md) - [KRS § 218B.015 218B.015 Construction of chapter -- Applicability](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXVIII_C218B_S218B.015.md) - [KRS § 218B.020 218B.020 Board of Physicians and Advisors -- Membership -- Duties -- Reporting requirements](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXVIII_C218B_S218B.020.md) - [KRS § 218B.025 218B.025 Registered and visiting qualified patients -- Designated caregivers -- Exemption from prosecution -- Limitations on amount of cannabis to be in possession](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXVIII_C218B_S218B.025.md) - [KRS § 218B.030 218B.030 Seizure and forfeiture -- Probable cause -- Rebuttable presumption of lawful use](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXVIII_C218B_S218B.030.md) - [KRS § 218B.035 218B.035 Criminal prosecution and disciplinary actions not precluded -- Driving under the influence](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXVIII_C218B_S218B.035.md) - [KRS § 218B.040 218B.040 Employer not required to permit or accommodate use](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXVIII_C218B_S218B.040.md) - [KRS § 218B.045 218B.045 Patient rights under state and local law -- Visitation and parenting time -- Medical care -- Schools -- Local board of education to establish policies](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXVIII_C218B_S218B.045.md) - [KRS § 218B.050 218B.050 Written certification form -- Application process -- Renewals -- Bona fide practitioner-patient relationship -- Procedures -- Administrative regulations](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXVIII_C218B_S218B.050.md) - [KRS § 218B.055 218B.055 Registry identification card required -- Written certification -- Visiting qualified patient -- Information required](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXVIII_C218B_S218B.055.md) - [KRS § 218B.060 218B.060 Registry identification card program -- Required information](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXVIII_C218B_S218B.060.md) - [KRS § 218B.065 218B.065 Cabinet action required on application -- Registration for patients under age eighteen -- Application denial -- Administrative hearings](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXVIII_C218B_S218B.065.md) - [KRS § 218B.070 218B.070 Cardholder required notifications to cabinet -- Return of unused cannabis -- Expiration of protections](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXVIII_C218B_S218B.070.md) - [KRS § 218B.075 218B.075 Revocation of registration identification card -- Penalties -- Notification to cardholder -- Administrative hearing -- Judicial review](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXVIII_C218B_S218B.075.md) --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXVIII_C218B_S218B.040. 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