What is the reason behind some companies conducting drug tests on their employees? What are the consequences for employees who test positive in a heavy industrial economy?
Many people are complaining that these companies are stupid for doing this, and while i agree that some people can test positive and not be under the influence, it is for the companies best interest. In fact people that test positive in the heavy industrial economy, they MUST be terminated. May company does the same. Its sad. We say that we do it for their safety, but the real reason is to protect the company. We live in such a litigious society, that until there are laws protecting a business from lawsuits from employees injured while potentially intoxicated, the business is at to much risk. I have seen companies have to pay out millions of dollars because an employee was injured while intoxicated. The laws are there to protect the employee, not employer in these cases, no matter how stupid.