I have found out that my employer cannot make me take a random drug screening in the state of WV. I am only obligated to take a test for pre hiring and in the case of an accident. Now about two years ago my employer told all of the employees we had to start taking random screenings by WV...
Thanks for taking the time to look that up for me. I wonder if that law has been changed since because we had to take random tests once every month or two? Actually my former employer said it was a state law that we HAD to be tested randomly.
I do apologize if I sounded hateful. This has just got me a little stressed. By the way,no drugs would have shown up. That's not why I refused. I had just gotten out of the doctors office where I was told I would need surgery for a hernia I received at work. I was hurting and already off the...
Well I'm happy to tell you that you are wrong. I was put in contact with a lawyer who told me in my state that an employer cannot force me to take a drug test if I was clocked out and the request for the test was made off company property,which it was. So no,the firing was not legal. Wherever it...
It may have been a work instruction but that instruction came while I was off the clock and had already left the doctors office. My medical treatment had already been taken care of.I might agree with you if while I was at the doctors office the doctor came in and said my employer wanted me to...
Then why did they make me clock out? It seems if they knew they were sending me for a drug test they wouldn't have made me clock out. I actually asked them if I should clock out or stay on the clock during my trip to the doctor and they said to clock out...
I was hurt at work close to the end of my shift. I went to my supervisor who told me to clock out and he'd take me to the doctor. After I left the doctors office he told me he was taking me for a drug test. I informed him I was in some pain and off the clock and didn't think I should have to go...