California will impose a stronger set of background checks for Healthcare workers who have been disciplined as drug abusers.   More specifically,  any healthcare professionals in state run recovery programs will be mandated to take a minimum of 104 drug test that first year after they have been committed to the program.  According to the article [...]

It should be no secret at this point that many employers are monitoring social media as part of their preemployment screening program.  Many consider the social media monitor just one more background check.   Employers monitor largely for a two-fold purpose.  The first is to recruit prospective employees.   The second is to filter out those [...]

It was reported by AP that a man shot up a drug testing lab just outside Portland, Oregon.    He killed one woman, and wounded two other people before turning the gun on himself.   The Lab where the shooting took place is the Legacy MetroLab, which conducts drug tests for employers.  It employs six people. So [...]

There are a number of ways employees can create problems both in the workplace and for the employer in general.   the most common is the busybody who wants to know everything about everybody.   The busybody spreads rumors and makes trouble, yet considers.   They think they are being political when the  are just being disruptive, bring [...]