NCJ Number
111431
Date Published
1986
Length
125 pages
Annotation
This text describes the crucial legal issues associated with alcohol and other drug abuse in the workplace and explores investigative techniques available to employers.
Abstract
It also addresses issues raised by rehabilitation and discipline and describes corporate strategies that can be implemented to control substance abuse in the workplace. The text emphasizes the need to balance the employer's need to know with the employee's right to privacy. Search and seizure rules and provisions related to privacy are outlined with respect to both the U.S. Constitution and State constitutions. Employee drug testing is examined in terms of testing methods, employee concerns, legal limits, and the use of random testing. Further sections examine the employer's liability for wrongful discharge and related civil torts, substance abuse issues arising under collective bargaining agreements, issues related to equal employment opportunity laws and State benefits laws, and safety in the workplace. Components of strategies to control employee substance abuse are examined. Chapter notes, excerpts from legislation, and summaries of court decisions.