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By Devry Smith Frank LLP | 2 Minutes Read July 14, 2014

Post-treatment agreements and accommodating alcoholism

A recent arbitrator’s decision concerned the enforceability of a pre-treatment agreement allowing an employer to terminate a unionized employee if he failed to abstain from the consumption of alcohol.

By Devry Smith Frank LLP | 3 Minutes Read June 25, 2014

Another failure to implement random alcohol and drug testing policy in the workplace

Suncor Energy Inc. has recently attempted to implement a mandatory, random drug and alcohol testing policy among employees in “safety-sensitive” or “specified” positions at their oil sands work site Fort McMurray, Alberta. These positions are held by about 82 percent of the 3,383 union members employed at the site.