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COMPULSORY DRUG ABUSE TESTING EMPLOYERS

COMPULSORY DRUG ABUSE TESTING BY PRIVATE EMPLOYERS:THE CASE AGAINST THE PRACTICE

This research develops a case opposing the practice of compulsory drug abuse testing by private employers. At the outset, it should be understood that the focus of this research is on the compulsory testing of employees for the presence in their bodily systems of illegal controlled narcotic substances. Whether the presence in bodily systems of traces such substances constitutes an abuse of drugs is beyond the scope of this research. The term drug abuse is commonly used to describe the consumption of illegal controlled narcotic substances, and the term is used in this context in this research. Compulsory testing refers to the practice of linking a right to employment with participation in a testing program.

American corporate employers have generally shown that they support drug testing in the workplace.1 As the cost of drug abuse testing becomes clearer, however, many employers are having second thought on the issue.2 Objections to drug testing in the workplace are also registered by (1) employees and civil liberties groups, who claim that the practice is an invasion of the individual's right to privacy, and (2), in many instances, by labor unions, which tend to side with their members in disputing management's right to impose

1Helen Axel, Corporate Experiences with Drug Testing Programs (New York: The Conference Board, 1988), 5.

2"Carriers Question If $300 million Tab for Random Drug Testing Is Worth It," Traffic World, 13 May 1991, 3840.

drug testing.3 It is the mandatory aspect of drug abuse testing that tends to be the most controversial.4

Nevertheless, drug abuse testing in the workplace in the United States is extensive, with over half of the country's major corporations conducting formal drug abuse testing programs.5 While accidents and the potential for accidents in the transportation industry have led to judicial supp...

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