NCJ Number
106917
Journal
Nova Law Review Volume: 11 Issue: 2 Dated: (Winter 1987) Pages: complete issue
Editor(s)
K J Potis
Date Published
1987
Length
532 pages
Annotation
Twenty articles address legal and policy issues associated with employee drug testing, particularly using urinalysis.
Abstract
A number of articles examine whether employee drug testing, particularly urinalysis, complies with constitutional mandates pertaining to search and seizure, privacy, and due process. Regarding governmental intrusion in the testing of public employees, articles note that the courts have reached a consensus that such drug testing must be based on reasonable individualized suspicion and must not violate reasonable expectations of privacy. Noting that private employees are not covered by existing Federal constitutional protections regarding drug testing, one article proposes a Federal privacy law to deal with unreasonable employer intrusions into employees' privacy. Articles also address the cost-effectiveness of employee drug testing and how it is addressed in collective bargaining and labor law. Other articles consider alternatives to drug testing as a means of countering safety and production problems in the workplace due to employee drug impairment. For individual articles, see NCJ 106918-36. Article footnotes.