“Always check the source” was the advice from a professor I had in college. In summary, he said, always go to the source and avoid, if possible, relying on other people’s opinions. Other people can often be wrong, he said. But it’s easy, you say, to just rely on someone’s opinion. And, that opinion may […]

We don’t think employers should stop job applicant drug testing. Mark A.R. Kleiman wrote an article in MSN Money web site expressing the opposite opinion recently. His remarks from the article are in Italics below. Our rebuttal points follow each italicized paragraph. Companies can’t find enough workers. And the research linking passing a drug test to […]

An analysis of 10 million drug tests by Quest Diagnostics reveals some very ominous news if you are an employer who employs people in safety sensitive positions. Don’t know what safety sensitive positions are? We have a blog post further explaining this topic.  And, the analysis reveals the effectiveness of using oral fluid instead of […]

Marijuana’s detrimental effects and unfulfilled promises continue to be exposed. Why is that an important statement? Because its proponents continue to make unfounded claims about its medically-healing properties and its need to be legalized. They ignore death and destruction that increased access to this drug have caused. Employers should be aware of these facts particularly […]

Should employers discontinue drug-testing programs? Recently two experts debated this topic in an article in the June/July/August 2018 issue of HR Magazine. The article is only available to members of SHRM. One expert, Jim Reidy, an employment lawyer and shareholder in the Manchester, N.H., office of Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green PA, argued that employer-drug […]