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By Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation | 4 Minutes Read June 3, 2016

Drug testing in the workplace -An update

Nobody likes tests. I remember school days when pop quizzes always meant wondering if you remembered everything, or whether what the teacher taught that day you were sick would be on the questions she asked. In today's workplace, tests are still looked upon as something you wish you could just skip, or avoid altogether. This is especially the case with random drug testing in the workplace.

Article by Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation / Employee Relations, Health and Safety, Human Rights, Privacy, Union Relations / bargaining unit, drug and alcohol, Drug testing in the workplace, employment law, Labour Law, policies and procedures, privacy rights and interests, random drug and alcohol testing, random testing, risks in the workplace, substance abuse in the workplace, workplace incidents and accidents

By Alison J. Bird | 2 Minutes Read December 7, 2015

Pre-employment drug and alcohol testing

The law of drug and alcohol testing in Canada is in a state of evolution. While the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, Local 30 v Irving Pulp & Paper Ltd., provided important guidance on the strict standard that employers must meet in order to subject employees to random testing, it raised many questions regarding how those principles would be applied to other forms of testing.

Article by Alison J. Bird / Employee Relations, Health and Safety, Human Rights / bona fide occupational requirement, drug and alcohol use, employment law, impaired at work, law of drug and alcohol testing, positive post-incident tests, pre-employment testing, random testing, Supreme Court of Canada

By Andrew Taillon | 3 Minutes Read July 28, 2011

New Brunswick court of appeal weighs in on alcohol testing

On July 7, 2011 the New Brunswick Court of Appeal handed down a decision regarding an employer’s alcohol testing policy. In Irving Pulp and Paper Limited v. Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada Local 30, 2011 NBCA 58, the Court found that the random alcohol testing policy in the case was reasonable.

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