Oversight Hearing on Drug Testing in the Work Force. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session.

Institution	Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor.
Titel	Oversight Hearing on Drug Testing in the Work Force. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session.
Quelle	(1988), (86 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Recht; Adults; Dismissal (Personnel); Drug Abuse; Employee Attitudes; Employer Attitudes; Employer Employee Relationship; Employment Practices; Hearings; Job Applicants; Personnel Policy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Dismissal; Entlassung; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Arbeitgeberinteresse; Berufspraxis; Bewerber; Personalpolitik
Abstract	This document reports the oral and written testimony of five witnesses who addressed the accuracy, uses, abuses, and possible benefits of drug testing in the workplace at a Congressional hearing. The hearing was conducted to discuss H.R. 691, the Employee Drug Testing Protection Act, which would prohibit drug testing in the workplace except in specific incidents. During the hearing, testimony was given by two doctors, a United States Representative, a representative of the General Accounting Office, and a victim of a false-positive drug test who was unjustly fired. Testimony centered on the various tests available and the costs of each type, the accuracy of various types, and the use of the tests by employers and potential employers. Testimony in favor of drug testing focused on the increasing use of drugs and the potential benefit to society of eliminating drug abusers from the workplace, especially when they work in safety-related occupations. Testimony against drug testing (and in favor of the bill) stressed the possible injustices of false-positive tests, individual rights, costs, and possible abuses of any regulations put on employers. (KC)
Anmerkungen	Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC