Couture 1
Elizabeth Couture
Professor Jakubovic
English Comp 102-400
29 April 2017
Workplace Drug Testing Have you ever had to submit to a drug test for employment? Where you enter a clinic and feel as if your privacy was invaded and you’ve been declared guilty of some crime you did not commit? When you attempt to comprehend the connotation of the employers mentality, you feel rooted in your safety and the safety of your co-workers. Drug-testing in the workplace has been established in multitudes of diversified industries and corporations in the United States since the 1980s. Following federal and state mandated drug-testing laws, with pre-employment screening, random testing, reasonable suspicion, and post-accident injuries, specifically …show more content…
Employees who use illicit substances expose the risk of profitability efficiency, production, and workplace safety. They’re also accompanied with a “higher rate of absenteeism, higher health care and compensation claim costs, and more on-the job injuries” (46). Federal and state laws still mandate workplace drug-testing. When employers utilize the drug testing policy, they are obligated to abide by laws legislated by the state (if applicable) that delegate what workplaces can and can not do (Lu and Kleiner …show more content…
"The U.S. Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing
Programs: Current status and future considerations." Forensic Science International , vol. 174, no. 2-3, 2008, pp. 111-119. OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center , doi:10.1016/J.FORSCIINT.2007.03.008. Christie, Timothy. "A discussion of the ethical implications of random drug testing in the workplace." Healthcare Management Forum , vol. 28, no. 4, 2015, pp. 172-174. OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center , doi:10.1177/0840470415581251.
French, Michael T., M. Christopher Roebuck, and Pierre Kébreau Alexandre. "To test or not to test: do workplace drug testing programs discourage employee drug use?" Social Science Research , vol. 33, no. 1, 2004, pp. 45-63. OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center , doi:10.1016/S0049-089X(03)00038-3.
Jacoby, Jeff. "Oh, Brother." Boston Globe (2006): n. pag. Abstract. (n.d.): n. pag. Print.
Couture 6
Lu, Ying-Tzu, and Brian H. Kleiner. "Drug testing in the workplace." Management Research
News , vol. 27, no. 4-5, 2004, pp.46-53. OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center , doi:10.1108/01409170410784464.
Paik, Leslie. "Organizational Interpretations of Drug Test Results." Law & Society Review ,
Elizabeth Couture
Professor Jakubovic
English Comp 102-400
29 April 2017
Workplace Drug Testing Have you ever had to submit to a drug test for employment? Where you enter a clinic and feel as if your privacy was invaded and you’ve been declared guilty of some crime you did not commit? When you attempt to comprehend the connotation of the employers mentality, you feel rooted in your safety and the safety of your co-workers. Drug-testing in the workplace has been established in multitudes of diversified industries and corporations in the United States since the 1980s. Following federal and state mandated drug-testing laws, with pre-employment screening, random testing, reasonable suspicion, and post-accident injuries, specifically …show more content…
Employees who use illicit substances expose the risk of profitability efficiency, production, and workplace safety. They’re also accompanied with a “higher rate of absenteeism, higher health care and compensation claim costs, and more on-the job injuries” (46). Federal and state laws still mandate workplace drug-testing. When employers utilize the drug testing policy, they are obligated to abide by laws legislated by the state (if applicable) that delegate what workplaces can and can not do (Lu and Kleiner …show more content…
"The U.S. Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing
Programs: Current status and future considerations." Forensic Science International , vol. 174, no. 2-3, 2008, pp. 111-119. OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center , doi:10.1016/J.FORSCIINT.2007.03.008. Christie, Timothy. "A discussion of the ethical implications of random drug testing in the workplace." Healthcare Management Forum , vol. 28, no. 4, 2015, pp. 172-174. OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center , doi:10.1177/0840470415581251.
French, Michael T., M. Christopher Roebuck, and Pierre Kébreau Alexandre. "To test or not to test: do workplace drug testing programs discourage employee drug use?" Social Science Research , vol. 33, no. 1, 2004, pp. 45-63. OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center , doi:10.1016/S0049-089X(03)00038-3.
Jacoby, Jeff. "Oh, Brother." Boston Globe (2006): n. pag. Abstract. (n.d.): n. pag. Print.
Couture 6
Lu, Ying-Tzu, and Brian H. Kleiner. "Drug testing in the workplace." Management Research
News , vol. 27, no. 4-5, 2004, pp.46-53. OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center , doi:10.1108/01409170410784464.
Paik, Leslie. "Organizational Interpretations of Drug Test Results." Law & Society Review ,