Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn In 2021, the rate of positive drug test results in the U.S. workforce reached its highest rate since 2001 and was up more than 30 percent in the combined workforce from an all-time low in 2010 to 2012, according to the 2022 Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index™ (DTI)…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On February 27, 2022, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) issued a proposal in the Federal Register on “Procedures for Transportation Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs: Addition of Oral Fluid Specimen Testing for Drugs” to add oral fluid testing to the existing urine drug testing for…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On April 22, 2021, the City Council of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, approved legislation – Bill No. 200625 – that would make it illegal for employers in the city to require prospective employees to submit to drug testing for the presence of marijuana before hiring them for a job.…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The New York Department of Labor (DOL) has published new guidance entitled “Adult Use Cannabis And The Workplace – New York Labor Law 201-D” to address questions related to the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) and stated that employers in New York state cannot drug test…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Data released by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) gathered from its Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse showed the number of positive driver drug tests through August 2021 increased by nearly 13 percent when compared with a year ago, according to a monthly…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 21, 2021, Amazon.com – the second largest private employer in the United States – announced in a blog post that the company had “reinstated the employment eligibility for former employees and applicants who were previously terminated or deferred during random or pre-employment marijuana screenings.” The…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Several people have filed lawsuits claiming that drinking detox tea “ultimately led to them being fired from their jobs” after they failed required employment drug tests by testing positive for Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the chemical found in marijuana, according to a report from WSOC-TV Channel 9 in Charlotte,…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On April 28, 2021, a United States District Court in California dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former employee – Espindola v. Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc., Case 2:20-cv-03702 (C.D. Cal.) – who claimed disability discrimination after he was terminated from his job for testing positive for marijuana…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Marijuana workforce drug test positivity continued double-digit increases to keep the overall workforce drug test positivity rates at historically high levels, according to the 2021 Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index™ Analysis, the first large-scale national analysis of workforce drug testing during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Based on…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On April 22, 2021, the City Council of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, approved legislation – Bill No. 200625 – that would make it illegal for employers in the city “to require a prospective employee to submit to testing for the presence of marijuana” before hiring them for a job,…
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