Substance abuse in your employee population can be very costly to other associates, clients, the public and to your profit margins. And it decreases employee morale. According to an EHS Today article,  the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) reported that substance abuse in 2014 cost companies $81 billion in lost productivity, turnover, […]

Employers can be held liable for negligent retention when they knew or “should have known” if an employee has a reasonable propensity to injure members of the workforce or of the public.  Why? Because of the concept of respondeat superior. This means the injury would not have occurred had the employer not put the employee […]

Many want to know how long illegal drugs stay in the system. I recently attended a seminar on illegal drugs in the workplace. The speaker mentioned that marijuana stays in the system for 30 days. He explained that this is so because marijuana is a fat-soluble substance that stays in the fat cells of the […]

Let’s assume you just received a drug test result that indicates a positive for one of the drug panels in your list. We get questions from clients all the time about how to handle someone who denies the accuracy of the drug test results. Let’s start at the beginning. You should be aware of your […]