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Saving Lives and Money: Solving Substance Abuse in the Workplace ( May 2001 )
This article discusses the effects substance abuse can have on the workplace and what employers can do to prevent it. -
Drug and Alcohol Policies: Manufacturing Employer ( October 1996 )
Manufacturing employers who seek to prevent work-related drug and alcohol problems, or who must comply with government safety or DOT truck driver regulations, should have a written policy. Such a policy educates both hourly employees and supervisors on what appropriate conduct is required of them, sets uniform discipline standards and helps obtain potential relief, where statutorily available, from workers' compensation claims for accidents that are drug or alcohol related. Such a policy may be needed to challenge unemployment compensation benefit applications by former employees fired for drug or alcohol related misconduct. -
Employers Exhale: United States Supreme Court Medical Marijuana Decision Aids Employer Anti-Drug Programs ( August 2005 )
Employer drug and alcohol abuse prevention and testing programs recently received a boost when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gonzales v. Raich, No. 03-1451 (June 6, 2005), that state laws authorizing the use of marijuana to treat illness do not insulate drug users from federal law making such behavior criminal. -
Employment Law: Employers must enforce drug-testing policies in a way that minimizes exposure to tort claims ( December 2001 )
For many employers, drug-testing policies have proved indispensable as a safeguard against hiring and retaining employees with potentially dangerous drug or alcohol problems. In states like California, however, such practices remain a thorny issue, as employers must carefully enforce any drug-testing policy in a way that does not increase their exposure to employment-related tort claims, especially for invasion of privacy. -
Genetics Testing of Employees Ends After EEOC Files Lawsuit ( June 2001 )
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad recently settled a lawsuit brought by the EEOC over the company's genetic testing of certain employees. The railroad required employees who made workers' compensation claims for carpel tunnel syndrome to submit to genetic testing. The company was interested in whether the employees had a genetic propensity for the condition, which might indicate that their injuries were not work-related. -
Summary of the DOT's Revised Drug and Alcohol Testing Rule ( January 2001 )
This article summarizes the new Department of Transportation rule that revised the policy of drug and alcohol testing applicable to transportation workers in safety-sensitive positions. -
Protecting Your Business Against the Renegade Employee ( September 2000 )
At one point or another, nearly all businesses will be forced to deal with issues such as theft, workplace violence. -
Employees' Rights to Privacy ( February 2000 )
Increasingly, employers are discovering that they need to know facts about their employees which may not be immediately apparent in the workplace - facts about their employees or prospective employees' credit and prior histories, facts about their employees' conduct in the workplace during "personal" or "break" time, facts about their employees' use of e-mail or Internet, facts about their employees' off-duty conduct, and facts about their employees' medical conditions. -
Walking the Workplace Privacy Tightrope: Seizing Your Rights as an Employer--Without Violating Those of Your Employees ( October 1999 )
I.INTRODUCTION: Employers' concerns in today's workplace cannot be limited to production, profits and competition.. -
Court of Appeals Upholds Random Drug Testing of School District Custodians While Rejecting Drug Testing of All School Employees Injured on the Job ( September 1999 )
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided two cases regarding random and suspicionless drug testing of .