Ni I disagree with ALL DRUG TESTING for private employers, They do not own me and have absolutely no right whatsoever to have any say in my private life. While on the Job maybe, but that is not how drug tests work. So either ban all of them or require ALL PUBLIC SERVANTS, PUBLIC EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS OF THE COURT, AND EVERY PERSON RECEIVING TAXPAYER FUNDS OF ANY KIND INCLUDING RETIREMENT BENEFITS AND CONTRACT PAYMENTS to take Mandatory Drug Tests every 3 days where ALL RESULTS ARE PUBLIC RECORDS, I would also include Performance Enhancing Drugs (steroids) with the penalty for a positive test, MANDATORY MINIMUM of 10 Years in Prison and complete civil asset forfeiture. Then I will consider the option of Private Employers requiring drug testing. I would like to add that you will not find executives of companies or lawyers taking drug tests in the business they work at, while the regular employees are required to. Until then it is all meaningless fluff.
So it sounds to me as if you want the GOVERNMENT to BAN these tests. Do I read you correctly? It's one thing to refuse to take such tests yourself and it's quite another to say that an employer shouldn't have the right to administer such tests as a condition of employment.
Your eight hour day is somewhat shortsighted. Sometimes one is asked to travel and represent his employer. I don't know about you but I really wouldn't want a druggie representing me.
And if I cannot find out about drugs, can I find out about college records, or citizenship records? Or do I have to wind up with a schmuck like Barack Obama on my payroll?
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They are private employers. It's my business, my place of work. If I'm an employer and something you do in your private life may affect how you do your job, the cost I pay for health care benefits, and so forth, I give you the option. Take the drug test . . . or find work elsewhere. You don't have a right to work for me. You don't have a right to work for anybody other than yourself.
In particular, if you're diving a forklift for me or another motorized vehicle, or treating a patient for me or prioritizing patients for treatment, or writing a legal opinion that's backed by my malpractice coverage (and next year's premiums are going to be affected by your work) . . . or if I just don't like drugs . . . or for any other reason that's not illegal under the Constitution or applicable law? If I make a drug test part of the condition of employment, they you have the choice. Work for me and take the test or work elsewhere.
You don't have a Constitutional right to work for me.
Let me guess- you own a thousand shares of stock in a company that produces drug testing kits??? < /sarc >