People can stop using for a short time, and the minute they're hired, they'll never be tested again. If you could drug-test every day, that would be different. The company's delivery and distribution workers were the first to receive the paperwork. The company later revised the form, removing the credit history language, and offered to rehire the departed workers. The form did not require anyone to submit to a drug test, Higgins said.
People understand the drug-testing split is a reasonable policy.
The issue of the split hasn't been raised thus far. Yet such human-resource quandaries highlight a sober side to the great economic success stories of the 20th century, said Maltby of the National Workrights Institute. Yet the technology industry has tested the boundaries of the workplace before, igniting fierce battles pitting one group of workers against another. A federal appeals court handed the temporary workers a partial victory last year, ruling that as many as 10,000 temporary Microsoft workers must be allowed to purchase company stock at a discount. The U.S. Supreme Court in January upheld the lower court's ruling.