Pre-Employment Drug Testing Policy Held Unconstitutional. by Ricardo L Gilmore, Esq., and Michael J Roper, Esq.Printed in FAHROgram November/December 2014.
. there’s no precedent within this Circuit which holds the government can violate a person’s legal rights underneath the 4th Amendment as long as prior notice from the impending breach is offered. Accordingly, a legal court finds no good reasons to adopt the excellence between applicants and employees the City has recommended.
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As Florida public employers, housing authorities should be aware of a recent case regarding the constitutionality of a governmental body’s personnel policy that mandated drug testing for all job applicants. See Voss v. City of Key West, 2014 WL 1883588 (S. D. Fla. May 9, 2014). In our experience, many public housing authorities have a similar policy of testing all job applicants across-the-board, and this new decision warrants a careful review of those common employment practices.
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from Basic Skills in Interpreting Laboratory Data | |
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from A Health Educator’s Guide to Understanding Drugs of Abuse Testing | |
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from Laboratory and Diagnostic Testing in Ambulatory Care E-Book: A Guide for Health Care Professionals | |
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from Human Resource Management: Functions, Applications, and Skill Development | |
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from Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems |
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