LABOR SHORTAGES “There’s a record number of open positions in the transportation, warehousing, and utilities category, up about 30% from the pre-pandemic average” (Barrons). “There’s always turnover, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it as bad with not being able to...
Some of your best current employees and most promising prospective employees use marijuana on occasion or regularly. Recently, Amazon decided to significantly curb the use of pre-employment drug testing for marijuana, drawing attention to the increasing challenge of...
Marijuana has been legalized in our state. How do we adjust our drug-testing program to avoid penalizing workers for legal consumption that does not impact their alertness and safety at work? Our random drug tests are time-consuming and don’t seem to be...
Fortunately, aviation accidents are relatively rare, but when they do occur, 80% are a result of human error, and of those, an estimated 15-20% are caused by pilot fatigue. (BBC, 2012) While pilot napping is a standard safety practice throughout the industry,...
Drug testing’s limitations as a safety measure have been firmly established. Yet despite experiencing these limitations, companies have continued relying on drug testing, considering it to be the only tool that can have any affect in combating impairment in their...
Since President Regan’s mandate for drug testing Federal employees in 1988, many private sector employers followed suit, and continue to follow suit, by testing their employees for drug use, especially in safety-sensitive industries like construction and...
