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Employers might assume that an injured worker’s positive post-accident drug or alcohol test will automatically defeat a related workers’ compensation claim. However, in Ohio at least, the reality is a bit more complicated. Under Ohio law, a positive, post-accident…
Data released by Quest Diagnostics shows that drug use in the United States workforce increased by double digits between 2015 and 2017 in five major industry sectors, including Transportation and Warehousing; Other Services; Finance and Insurance; Retail Trade; and…
Mississippi Representative Willie Bailey recently proposed the bill “Urine Trouble Act,” which is intended to address synthetic urine being used by safety-sensitive employees to cover up negative drug testing. Although the bill passed in the Mississippi House was…
The 30th year of the Drug-Free Workplace Act and the Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index (DTI) continues to demonstrate that drug positivity rates are on the rise. For instance, the positivity rate for cocaine has increased for the fifth year in a row in the general…
Prompted by Nevada’s recent legalization of recreational marijuana use, Caesars Entertainment Corp. has announced that it will no longer screen job applicants for marijuana use as a condition of employment. Executive Vice President of Corporate Communications and…
In March 2018, the sale and use of cannabis-derived CBD oil was legalized throughout the state of Indiana, but Act 52 raises new questions for employers and employees. The state does not regulate drug testing by private employers, allowing employers a wide latitude in…
Marijuana is now legal in nine states and Washington, D.C., which has resulted in the slow decline of pre-employment drug tests. Excellence Health Inc., a Las Vegas-based health care company with about 6,000 employees, no longer drug tests people coming to work for…
Effective February 1, 2018, a provision of Maine’s recreational marijuana law prohibits employers from taking adverse employment actions for off-premises marijuana use. One of the provisions provides that employers are not required to permit or accommodate the use,…
There are currently three primary methods for specimen collection for employers who want to create a safe and healthy workforce through drug screening. Urine testing is used by 90 percent of employers, according to HireRight, with saliva used by 10 percent and hair…
The Mississippi Urine Trouble Act, sponsored by Republican State Representative Andy Gipson, would ban the sale or use of synthetic human urine for the purposes of defrauding a drug test, including one for employment. A box of fake urine can be purchased at truck…