A recent study released by Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, the nation’s leading provider of employment-related drug testing services, revealed that drug use by employees and applicants is at the lowest level since 1988.
Although you can prohibit smoking on the job, avoid a policy that prohibits an employee from smoking off the job as well. Such a broad prohibition can invade a worker’s privacy and is specifically barred by some state laws.
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As of June 2005, eleven states had laws allowing for the medical use of marijuana: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington.
Some state and local jurisdictions have specifically indicated that they consider AIDS to be a protected disability.
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Industrial Commission of Arizona, 800 W. Washington Street, Phoenix, AZ 85007, 602-542-4411.
Contact the General Services Department at 1325 J St., Suite 1910, Sacramento, CA 95814-2928. Telephone: (916) 322-9900. Fax: (916) 323-6567.
Colorado has no law dealing with drug testing in employment.
The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may, after notice and hearing, impose a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 for the first offense and $2,500 for each subse