For most jobs, especially jobs with large corporations, a drug test is mandatory. Not only are these drug tests not very accurate, but it seems to me that they infringe on our 4th Amendment rights. Our cars and homes cannot be searched, but our bodily fluids can? Most people say that if I don't want to take a drug test, then I should find a job where I don't need to. I say no job should require me to pass a drug test.
Even if I did do drugs, it wouldn't be any business of my employer's. As long as I am not high during work and I perform my duties what is the problem? Previous to my being employed they have no reason to think I do drugs, so a drug test is a search without cause. Unless it is a high level position my actions are not going to reflect back on the company. As long as I do the job, there is no reason for a drug test.
After accidents or complaints a drug test may be warranted, but before employment it seems like a warrantless, illegal search. Previous criminal records don't automatically mean you won't get a job, but a positsive on an unreliable drug test will. I have worked jobs where I had to take a drug test, but the guy working next to me was an ex-murderer. So if I had smoked some weed before the drug test I wouldn't have been hired, but the guy who killed someone would have a job? That doesn't make sense. Not that I think felons shouldn't be able to get jobs by the way.
There isn't any problem with intoxication. Alcohol is a tolerated part of corporate culture. It shows up at corporate parties and a lot of employees drink on the weekend. So if the intoxication isn't the problem, what is? Most studies that show drug users to be bad employees use questionable techniques and get misinterpreted by corporate stooges looking for a standardized way to weed out risks.
There is no reason that my urine or blood should be tested for drug use before employment. It shouldn't be legal. This is a blow to our rights.
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People cannot do drug tests without your consent, thus it does not violate one of your rights. If you choose to be employed by an employer who mandates drug tests then you consent to the test (you sign forms to that extent).
Plus, it is not your right to be employed.
But tests are nearly ubiquitous. Plus just because I give consent doesn't make it RIGHT. Plenty of business practices based on this idea have been ruled illegal or wrong. The low wages of the middle 20th century were justified this way.
You are right, it is not my right to be employed, but it seems wrong to me that the use of a substance should rule me out of any job, or committing any crime not directly related to my line of work (speeding tickets for delivery drivers) for that matter. Telling someone that they must consent to a test before employment is coercion anyway. It is not a free choice.
Res ipsa loquitur.
Memento mori, mahalo.