580 CFRA – Big Employers Push for Drug Testing as Pot Legalization Looms
Canada’s biggest airlines, train and trucking firms, construction companies and transit authorities are urging the government to allow them to conduct mandatory drug tests for key members of their work forces.
The issue of testing is currently in front of the Senate, where two bills are being studied: C-45 to legalize cannabis by the summer, and C-46 to make it easier for law-enforcement authorities to crack down on impaired driving.
Ottawa Employment Lawyer Alex Lucifero, Managing Associate at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, discussed with host Rob Snow on Newstalk 580 CFRA the current status of mandatory drug testing in the workplace (as well as alcohol testing).
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Alex C. Lucifero
Alex C. Lucifero is a partner and member of Samfiru Tumarkin LLP's Labour and Employment Law Group and Long-term Disability Group in Ontario.
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