Newsgroups: alt.drugs,misc.legal From: [k--d--e] at [cs.uiuc.edu] (Carl M Kadie) Subject: Re: Company drug policy and Searches --need advice Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 17:09:04 GMT All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows. ================= civil-liberty/drug-testing.workplace.aclu ================= * Drug Testing in the Workplace -- ACLU Briefing Paper #5 Answers these questions: Don't employers have the right to expect their employees not to be high on drugs on the job? Can urine tests determine precisely when a particular drug was used? If you don't use drugs, you have nothing to hide--so why object to testing? Are drug tests reliable? Still, isn't universal testing the best way to catch drug users? But shouldn't exceptions be made for certain workers, such as airline pilots, who are responsible for the lives of others? Drug use costs industry millions in lost worker productivity each year. Don't employers have a right to test as a way of protecting their investment? Have any courts ruled that mandatory urine testing of government employees is a violation of the constitution? If the constitution can't help them, how can private employees protect themselves against drug testing? ================= ================= If you have gopher, you can browse the CAF archive with the command gopher gopher.eff.org These document(s) are also available by anonymous ftp (the preferred method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s): pub/academic/civil-liberty/drug-testing.workplace.aclu To get the file(s) by email, send email to [archive server] at [eff.org.] Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file name): send acad-freedom/civil-liberty drug-testing.workplace.aclu -- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent any organization; this is just me. = [k--d--e] at [cs.uiuc.edu] =