hence drug testing is relevant to the terms of work and employment and is therefore ethically and legally justified within the terms of the employment agreement. Further legal argument provides the employer's limited sphere of control, does not preclude reasonable constraints on employee privacy when the objective of the testing are intrinsic to the demands of the workplace and implicit in the terms of the employment contract. (Cranford)
2.0 A discussion of the importance of the issue for HRM
A number of employers, more than three-fifth in a study cited by Coombs and West in their book, "Drug Testing: Issues and Options" "...perceive substance abuse to be a multidimensional issue in which both alcohol and illegal drugs are involved" and use drug testing as part of the employment process. There is however almost unive
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