Open AccessThe Constitutional Implications Of Employee Urine Testing
Author(s) -
Jon D. Bible
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of applied business research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2157-8834
pISSN - 0892-7626
DOI - 10.19030/jabr.v5i1.6378
Subject(s) - stress testing (software) , work (physics) , business , psychology , law , political science , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering , programming language
Whether employers may resort to compulsory urine testing to detect workplace-related drug use is one of the most hotly debated legal issues of the 1980s. Testing advocates stress the myriad problems that drug-impaired workers cause, including safety risks and faulty products, and they emphasize the effectiveness of this technique in identifying such employees.Opponents grant the need for a drug-free work setting but argue that urine testing is an excessively unreliable and intrusive means of obtaining one.