From: backpack@access.digex.com (Stuart Reges)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Re: Drug Free Workplace
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:42:45 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA

shea@ntmtv.UUCP (Ray Shea) writes:

>Was there also a "Drug Free Workplace" act passed by Congress?

In 1988 Congress passed the Drug-Free Workplace Act.  It requires those
companies who do substantial contracting with the government to be committed to
a drug-free workplace.  I know quite a bit about it because it was an extension
of this law that I took exception to in my protest (the Drug-Free Schools and
Communities Act which basically extended these same provisions to institutions
of higher learning who receive federal funding).  The act applies only to
violations at work.  Presumably individuals could do drugs off-site when they
are not working and this act would not come into play.  There is no requirement
for drug testing.  I believe there are stricter guidelines for those who do
classified research with the government, but the general guidelines are fairly
easy to satisfy.  Apple Computers, for example, must satisfy these requirements
because they sell equipment to the federal government, but they have no drug
testing and my impression is that they are highly opposed to it.

The act says that "No person, other than an individual, shall be considered a
resonsible source...for the purposes of being awarded a contract for the
procurement of any property or services of a value of $25,000 or more from any
Federal agency unless such person has certified to the contracting agency that
it will provide a drug-free workplace by--

	a) publishing a statement notifying employees that the unlawful
	manufacture, distribution, dispensation, possesion, or use of a
	controlled substance is prohibited in the person's workplace and
	specifying the actions that will be taken against employees for
	violations of such prohibition.

	b) establishing a drug-free awareness program to inform employees
	about--
		i) the dangers of drug abuse in the workplace
		ii) the person's policy of maintaining a drug-free workplace
		iii) any available drug counseling, rehabilitation, and
		employee assistance programs; and
		iv) the penalties that may be imposed upon employees for drug
		abuse violations;

	c) making it a requirement that each employee to be engaged in the
	performance of such contract be given a copy of the statement required
	by subparagraph (a);

	d) notifying the employee in the statement required by subparagraph
	(a), that as a condition of employment on such contract, the employee
	will--
		i) abide by the terms of the statement; and
		ii) notify the employer of any criminal drug statute conviction
		for a violation occurring in the workplace no later than 5 days
		after such conviction;

	e) notifying the contracting agency within 10 days after receiving
	notice under subparagraph (d)(ii) from an employee or otherwise
	receiving actual notice of such conviction;

	f) imposing a sanction on, or requiring the satisfactory participation
	in a drug abuse assistance or rehabilitation program by any employee
	who is so convicted, as required by section 5154; and

	g) making a good faith effort to continue to maintain a drug-free
	workplace through implementation of subparagraphs (a), (b), (c), (d),
	(e), and (f).

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