Re:  hiring conditional on urine test

It might be wise to talk with companies/orgs. that have adopted urine testing.
I know of one that  for a couple of years had a policy of making final hiring
contingent on a negative urine test for drugs. When they asked employees in a
routine survey  -If you could change one thing, what would it be?, the loud and
clear message was Stop urine testing. Employees  felt demeaned, said it set up
an adversarial relationship between workers and the co., and took it as an
indication that the hiring process must be flawed if, after all the forms,
reference checks and rounds of interviews, administrators selected druggies.
And they resented that the co. would subject them to the  process "to get a
discount on the co insurance policy."  The co. surveyed others in their
industry/area and discovered that they were the only ones doing urine testing
despite earlier findings that most had intended to start around the same time
this co did.  The co changed insurers and dropped the testing. SS


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