By a 7-0 vote, the Connecticut Supreme Court ordered the reinstatement of an arbitrator’s ruling that Gregory Linhoff, of New Hartford, Connecticut, be suspended for six months without pay and subjected to one year of random drug testing. Linhoff, a state employee for about 15 years, was fired from his union job as a maintenance worker at the University of Connecticut Health Center, after being caught smoking marijuana in March 2012 in a state-owned van on the Farmington campus.
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Connecticut man fired for smoking marijuana at work wins appeal