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About 33 states and municipalities in the United States have some sort of drug testing law. These laws often refer to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) regulations or the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) regulations….
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently approved an electronic version of the five-part paper custody and control form (CCF). It is believed that the electronic custody and control form (ECCF) will improve quality by reducing errors and eliminating…
More than 70 percent of all of the freight tonnage moved in the U.S. goes on trucks, an industry that must be focused on safety. It has even regulated its own industry by proposing and initiating numerous safety improvements. The inclusion of hair as an alternative…
Although not all state drug testing laws include provisions for alcohol testing, many states defer to the federal standards and require workplace alcohol tests to be conducted in accordance with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration guidelines…
Governor Chris Christie recently announced a bipartisan agreement on model legislation to help reclaim the millions of family members, friends, neighbors and coworkers in New Jersey and across the country who are stricken by drug addiction. Three new expungement…
It has been estimated that the number of registered medical marijuana users would increase 10-fold to 450,000 people by 2024. But with this uptake comes in increase in unexpected costs for employers. In Skinner v. Board of Trustees of the Canadian Elevator Industry…
In April, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice signed legislation that legalizes the use of medical marijuana for those with serious medical conditions. The drug may only be dispensed as pills, oil, topical forms, vaporization, nebulization, tincture, liquid or dermal…
The Safer Workplace Act, will goes into effect July 7, 2017, will broaden the circumstances under which employers may conduct workplace drug and alcohol testing. Employers must comply with all of the statue’s requirements in order to take advantage of its benefits….
Ralph Greer established a Fourth Amendment violation by several individual supervisors after being discharged from his position with the Detroit Department of Water and Sewage (DWSD) when he refused to submit a drug test to the company. The Construction Inspector was…
A recently published Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index has demonstrated that illicit drug use among United States employees is on the rise, resulting in the highest drug test positivity rates in the last 12 years. The survey of more than 10 million workforce drug…