Pre-employment drug testing can feel overwhelming for many employers. What are the rules? Do certain drugs matter more? What doesn’t matter at all? What can you let slide? The hard part is that ...

Pre-employment drug tests are used to screen prospective employees for illegal drug use or abuse of prescription medication. Employers typically extend conditional job offers to new hires contingent ...

With medical marijuana now legal in three-fourths of all states, some long-term care employers say that pre-employment testing is weeding out otherwise ideal job candidates. They’re reconsidering ...

Maintaining a drug-free workplace is an important component of a safe working environment. In this year of major cost-cutting and shrinking budgets for occupational health and safety programs, however ...

In a recent decision by the Ninth Circuit, the Court of Appeals upheld the district court ruling in favor of grocery chain WinCo Holdings, Inc., holding that plaintiffs who were not yet employees when ...

On June 1, 2021, Amazon said it would immediately end pre-employment marijuana drug testing for all jobs outside of those subjected to federal requirements, instead opting to treat marijuana use ...

Positivity for cocaine and marijuana is climbing among federally mandated testing of safety-sensitive workers. Positives are rising faster in post-accident tests than preemployment for cocaine, ...

Pre-employment drug testing is relatively rare. According to a study of Glassdoor posts conducted by American Addiction Centers, “the percentage of jobs requiring pre-employment drug tests is lower ...

California law generally requires an employer to compensate employees while employees are under the employer’s control. In addition, Labor Code section 2802 requires an employer to compensate its ...

Washington state will soon provide measures to protect employees from pre-employment drug tests for cannabis in many situations. On May 9, Gov. Jay Inslee signed Senate Bill 5132 to lay out broad ...

Internet commenters rallied behind one worker who refused to take a company's pre-employment drug test but was offered a job anyways. In a viral Reddit post published on the popular r/antiwork, ...