A reader calls me about a friend. He called me in response to my entry about drug testing and zero tolerance policies. My entry actually was based in part on another blog entry by Mike Maslanka, a noted employer side attorney. Mike’s point and mine was that an employer should be prepared to allow exceptions
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Zero Tolerance Drug Policies Do Not Always Work
By Thomas J. Crane on
Posted in General
Many employers have zero tolerance for drug testing. I served in the Army Reserve and Army National Guard for 25 years. The US Army had a so-called zero tolerance policy for NCO’s and officers. Any Non-Commissioned officer or commissioned officer caught doing drugs in a drug test would be automatically discharged. If the offender was…