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AL Code § 25-5-317 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 5 - Workers' Compensation.|Article 12 - Workers' Compensation Medical Services Board.|Section 25-5-317 - Assessment of Pro Rata Share; Disposition of Unexpended Balance.

Section 25-5-317Assessment of pro rata share; disposition of unexpended balance. (a) Within 60 days after May 19, 1992, the Secretary of the Department of Labor shall assess each insurance carrier, self-insured employer, and group fund its pro rata share of the total amount of up to $4,500,000.00 according to the method set out in Section 25-5-316(d). Of the total amount, $800,000.00 shall be allocated to pay weekly benefits to the claimants of the Second Injury Trust Fund until an appropriate budget is approved in accordance with Chapter 4 of Title 41. The assessment shall be deposited into the Workers' Compensation Administrative Trust Fund and disbursed by the state Comptroller on order of the secretary. (b) The assessment is appropriated and made available for the initial implementation costs and expenses of the workers' compensation program to fund activities not included in the general fund appropriation for fiscal year 1991-1992 and fiscal year 1992-1993, which are peculiar to this article. (c) Any unexpended balance remaining at the end of the fiscal year will be credited to the insurance carriers and self-insured employers at the end of the next fiscal year. (Acts 1992, No. 92-537, p. 1082, §49.)
AL Code § 25-5-330 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 5 - Workers' Compensation.|Article 13 - Drug-Free Workplace Program.|Section 25-5-330 - Legislative Intent.

Section 25-5-330Legislative intent. It is the intent of the Legislature to promote drug-free workplaces in order that employers in this state be afforded the opportunity to maximize their levels of productivity, enhance their competitive positions in the marketplace, and reach their desired levels of success without experiencing the costs, delays, and tragedies associated with work related accidents resulting from substance abuse by employees. (Acts 1995, No. 95-535, p. 1082, §1.)
AL Code § 25-5-333 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 5 - Workers' Compensation.|Article 13 - Drug-Free Workplace Program.|Section 25-5-333 - Elements of Program.

Section 25-5-333Elements of program. (a) A drug-free workplace program shall contain all the following elements: (1) A written policy statement as provided in Section 25-5-334. (2) Substance abuse testing as provided in Section 25-5-335. (3) Resources of employee assistance providers maintained in accordance with Section 25-5-336. (4) Employee education as provided in Section 25-5-337(a). (5) Supervisor training in accordance with Section 25-5-337(b). (b) In addition to the requirements of subsection (a), a drug-free workplace program shall be implemented in compliance with the confidentiality standards provided in Section 25-5-339. (Acts 1995, No. 95-535, p. 1082, §4.)
AL Code § 25-5-334 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 5 - Workers' Compensation.|Article 13 - Drug-Free Workplace Program.|Section 25-5-334 - Notice of Testing; Written Policy Statement.

Section 25-5-334Notice of testing; written policy statement. (a) One time only, prior to testing, all employees and job applicants for employment shall be given a notice of testing. In addition, all employees shall be given a written policy statement from the employer which contains all of the following: (1) A general statement of the employer's policy on employee substance abuse which shall identify: a. The types of testing an employee or job applicant may be required to submit to, including reasonable suspicion or other basis used to determine when the testing will be required. b. The actions the employer may take against an employee or job applicant on the basis of a positive confirmed test result. (2) A statement advising an employee or job applicant of the existence of this article. (3) A general statement concerning confidentiality. (4) The consequences of refusing to submit to a drug test. (5) A statement advising an employee of the Employee Assistance Program, if the employer offers the program, or advising the employee of the employer's resource file of assistance programs and other persons, entities, or organizations designed to assist employees with personal or behavioral problems. (6) A statement that an employee or job applicant who receives a positive confirmed test result may contest or explain the result to the employer within five working days after written notification of the positive test result. (7) A statement informing an employee of the provisions of the federal Drug-Free Workplace Act, if applicable to the employer. (b) An employer not having a substance abuse testing program in effect on July 1, 1996, shall ensure that at least 60 days elapse between a general one-time notice to all employees that a substance abuse testing program is being implemented and the beginning of the actual testing. An employer having a substance abuse testing program in place prior to July 1, 1996, shall not be required to provide a 60-day notice period. (c) An employer shall include notice of substance abuse testing on vacancy announcements for those positions for which testing is required. A notice of the employer's substance abuse testing policy shall also be posted in an appropriate and conspicuous location on the employer's premises, and copies of the policy shall be made available for inspection by the employees or job applicants of the employer during regular business hours in the employer's personnel office or other suitable locations. All testing conducted by an employer shall be in conformity with the standards and procedures established in this article and all applicable rules adopted by the state Department of Labor pursuant to this article. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an employer shall not have a legal duty under this article to request an employee or job applicant to undergo testing. (Acts 1995, No. 95-535, p. 1082, §5.)
AL Code § 25-5-336 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 5 - Workers' Compensation.|Article 13 - Drug-Free Workplace Program.|Section 25-5-336 - Employee Assistance Program or Resource File of Employee Assistance Providers.

Section 25-5-336Employee assistance program or resource file of employee assistance providers. (a) If an employer has an employee assistance program, the employer shall inform the employee of the benefits and services of the employee assistance program. In addition, the employer shall provide the employee with notice of the policies and procedures regarding access to and utilization of the program. (b) If an employer does not have an employee assistance program, the employer shall maintain a resource file of providers of other employee assistance including drug and alcohol abuse programs, mental health providers, and other persons, entities, or organizations available to assist employees with personal or behavioral problems and shall notify the employee of the availability of the resource file. In addition, the employer shall post in a conspicuous place a listing of providers or employee assistance in the area. (Acts 1995, No. 95-535, p. 1082, §7.)
AL Code § 25-5-337 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 5 - Workers' Compensation.|Article 13 - Drug-Free Workplace Program.|Section 25-5-337 - Semiannual Education Program; Supervisor Training.

Section 25-5-337Semiannual education program; supervisor training. (a) An employer shall provide all employees with a semiannual education program on substance abuse, in general, and its effects on the workplace, specifically. An education program for a minimum of one hour should include, but is not limited to, the following information: (1) The explanation of the disease model of addiction for alcohol and drugs. (2) The effects and dangers of the commonly abused substances in the workplace. (3) The policies of the company and procedures regarding substance abuse in the workplace and how employees who wish to obtain substance abuse treatment can do so. (b) In addition to the education program provided in subsection (a), an employer shall provide all supervisory personnel with a minimum of two hours of supervisor training, which includes, but is not limited to, the following information: (1) How to recognize signs of employee substance abuse. (2) How to document and collaborate signs of employee substance abuse. (3) How to refer substance abusing employees to the proper treatment providers. (Acts 1995, No. 95-535, p. 1082, §8.)
AL Code § 25-5-338 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 5 - Workers' Compensation.|Article 13 - Drug-Free Workplace Program.|Section 25-5-338 - Construction of Article.

Section 25-5-338Construction of article. (a) No physician-patient relationship is created between an employee or job applicant and an employer, medical review officer, or any person performing or evaluating a drug test solely by the establishment, implementation, or administration of a drug-testing program. (b) Nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent an employer from establishing reasonable work rules related to employee possession, use, sale, or solicitation of drugs, including convictions for drug related offenses, and taking action based upon a violation of any of those rules. (c) Nothing in this article shall be construed to operate retroactively, and nothing in this article shall abrogate the right of an employer under state or federal law to conduct drug tests, or implement employee drug-testing programs. Notwithstanding the foregoing, only those programs that meet the criteria outlined in this article qualify for reduced workers' compensation insurance premiums under this article. (d) Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit an employer from conducting medical screening or other tests required, permitted, or not disallowed by any statute, rule, or regulation for the purpose of monitoring exposure of employees to toxic or other unhealthy materials in the workplace or in the performance of job responsibilities. The screening or tests shall be limited to the specific materials expressly identified in the statute, rule, or regulation, unless prior written consent of the employee is obtained for other tests. (e) No cause of action shall arise in favor of any person based upon the failure of an employer to establish or conduct a program or policy for substance abuse testing. (Acts 1995, No. 95-535, p. 1082, §9.)
AL Code § 25-5-339 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 5 - Workers' Compensation.|Article 13 - Drug-Free Workplace Program.|Section 25-5-339 - Confidentiality of Information.

Section 25-5-339Confidentiality of information. (a) All information, interviews, reports, statements, memoranda, and test results, written or otherwise, received by the employer through a substance abuse testing program are confidential communications, but may be used or received in evidence, obtained in discovery, or disclosed in any civil or administrative proceeding, except as provided in subsection (c). (b) Employers, laboratories, medical review officers, employee assistance programs, drug or alcohol rehabilitation programs, and their agents who receive or have access to information concerning test results shall keep all information confidential. Release of such information under any other circumstance shall be solely pursuant to a written consent form signed voluntarily by the person tested, unless the release is compelled by an agency of the state or a court of competent jurisdiction or unless deemed appropriate by a professional or occupational licensing board in a related disciplinary proceeding. The consent form shall contain at a minimum all of the following: (1) The name of the person who is authorized to obtain the information. (2) The purpose of the disclosure. (3) The precise information to be disclosed. (4) The duration of the consent. (5) The signature of the person authorizing release of the information. (c) Information on test results shall not be released or used in any criminal proceeding against the employee or job applicant. Information released contrary to this subsection shall be inadmissible as evidence in the criminal proceeding. (d) Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to prohibit the employer or laboratory conducting a test from having access to employee test information when consulting with legal counsel when the information is relevant to its defense in a civil or administrative matter. (Acts 1995, No. 95-535, p. 1082, §10.)
AL Code § 25-5-340 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 5 - Workers' Compensation.|Article 13 - Drug-Free Workplace Program.|Section 25-5-340 - Department of Labor to Perform Administrative Duties for Certification of Employers.

Section 25-5-340Department of Labor to perform administrative duties for certification of employers. The Department of Labor, Workers' Compensation Division, shall promulgate by rule or regulation procedures and forms for the certification of employers who establish and maintain a drug-free workplace which complies with this article. The department may charge a fee for the certification of a drug-free workplace program in an amount which shall approximate the administrative costs to the department of the certification. The certification fees shall be deposited in a revolving account to fund the administrative costs of certification and are hereby appropriated solely for that purpose. Certification of an employer shall be required for each year in which a premium discount is granted. (Acts 1995, No. 95-535, p. 1082, §11.)
AL Code § 25-7-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 7 - Labor Unions and Labor Relations.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 25-7-1 - Declaration of Policy.

Section 25-7-1Declaration of policy. The right to live involves the right to work. The public and working men and women must be protected. The activities of labor organizations affect the social and economic conditions of the state and the welfare of its citizens. It is declared to be the policy of this state, in the exercise of its police power and in the protection of the public interest, to promote voluntary and peaceful settlement and adjustment of labor disputes and to regulate the activities and affairs of labor organizations, their officers, agents and other representatives in the manner and to the extent provided in this article. (Acts 1943, No. 298, p. 252, §1.)
AL Code § 25-7-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 7 - Labor Unions and Labor Relations.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 25-7-2 - Definitions.

Section 25-7-2Definitions. When used in this article, the terms defined in this section shall have the meanings herein ascribed to them, unless it clearly appears from the context that some other meaning is indicated: (1) LABOR ORGANIZATION or LABOR UNION. Every organization, association, group, union, lodge, local, branch, or subdivision thereof, whether incorporated or not, having within its membership employees working in the State of Alabama, organized for the purpose of dealing with employer or employers concerning hours of employment, rates of pay or the tenure or other terms or conditions of employment, but such term or terms shall not include any labor organization or labor union the members of which are subject to the Act of Congress known as the Railway Labor Act. (2) LABOR DISPUTE. Any controversy concerning terms, tenure, or conditions of employment or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee; provided, that this definition shall not relate to a dispute between an individual worker and his employer. (Acts 1943, No. 298, p. 252, §2.)
AL Code § 25-7-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 7 - Labor Unions and Labor Relations.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 25-7-3 - Construction of Article.

Section 25-7-3Construction of article. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this article, nothing contained in this article shall be construed to interfere with or impede or diminish in any way the right to strike or the right to individuals to work, nor shall anything in this chapter be construed so as to invade unlawfully the right to freedom of speech. (Acts 1943, No. 298, p. 252, §13.)
AL Code § 25-7-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 7 - Labor Unions and Labor Relations.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 25-7-6 - Freedom to Join or Refrain From Joining Labor Organizations.

Section 25-7-6Freedom to join or refrain from joining labor organizations. Every person shall be free to join or to refrain from joining any labor organization, except as otherwise provided in Section 25-7-13, and, in the exercise of such freedom, shall be free from interference by force, coercion, or intimidation, by threats of force or coercion or by the intimidation of or injury to his family. (Acts 1943, No. 298, p. 252, §8.)
AL Code § 25-7-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 7 - Labor Unions and Labor Relations.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 25-7-9 - Interference, etc., With Peaceable Exercise of Lawful Industry, Business, Etc.

Section 25-7-9Interference, etc., with peaceable exercise of lawful industry, business, etc. Any person who, by force or threats of violence to person or property, or who, by any means of duress prevents, or seeks to prevent, another from doing work or furnishing materials or from contracting to do work or furnish materials for or to any person engaged in any lawful business, or who disturbs, interferes with or prevents, or in any manner attempts to prevent the peaceable exercise of any lawful industry, business or calling by any other person shall, on conviction, be fined not less than $10.00 nor more than $500.00, and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than 12 months. (Code 1886, §3763; Code 1896, §5514; Code 1907, §6856; Code 1923, §3990; Code 1940, T. 26, §336.)
AL Code § 25-7-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 7 - Labor Unions and Labor Relations.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 25-7-11 - Use or Threats of Use of Force, etc., to Secure or Prevent Attendance at Strike Votes or to Influence Votes.

Section 25-7-11Use or threats of use of force, etc., to secure or prevent attendance at strike votes or to influence votes. It shall be unlawful for any person at any time or place, by force or the threat of force, to seek to secure or prevent attendance at any meeting or voting place at which any strike vote is taken, or to influence the vote of such employee at such meeting or voting place by the use of force, coercion or intimidation or by threat of force or coercion or by the offering of a reward or the threat of loss of employment or membership in a labor organization. Any person using such force, coercion or threats or offering of rewards or withholding of membership from labor organizations or any person encouraging, aiding or abetting in such prohibited conduct shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Acts 1943, No. 298, p. 252, §13.)
AL Code § 25-7-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 7 - Labor Unions and Labor Relations.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 25-7-12 - Collection, etc., by Labor Organization, etc., of Fee, etc., as Work Permit or Condition of Work.

Section 25-7-12Collection, etc., by labor organization, etc., of fee, etc., as work permit or condition of work. It shall be unlawful for any labor organization, any labor organizer, any officer, agent, representative or member of any labor organization or any other person to collect, receive or demand, directly or indirectly, from any person, any fee, assessment or sum of money whatsoever, as a work permit or as a condition for the privilege of work; provided, however, this shall not prevent the collection of initiation fees or dues. (Acts 1943, No. 298, p. 252, §15.)
AL Code § 25-7-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 7 - Labor Unions and Labor Relations.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 25-7-13 - Membership of Executive, Administrative, etc., Employees in Labor Organizations; Effect of Section on Existing Insurance Contracts.

Section 25-7-13Membership of executive, administrative, etc., employees in labor organizations; effect of section on existing insurance contracts. It shall be unlawful for any executive, administrative, professional or supervisory employee to be a member in, or to be accepted for membership by, any labor organization, the constitution and bylaws of which permit membership to employees other than those in executive, administrative, professional or supervisory capacities or which is affiliated with any labor organization which permits membership to employees other than those in an executive, administrative, professional or supervisory capacity. The provisions of this section shall not be construed so as to interfere with or void any insurance contract in existence and in force on June 29, 1943. (Acts 1943, No. 298, p. 252, §16.)
AL Code § 25-7-14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 7 - Labor Unions and Labor Relations.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 25-7-14 - Adoption and Use of Labels or Devices by Unions or Associations of Workingmen.

Section 25-7-14Adoption and use of labels or devices by unions or associations of workingmen. Any union or association of workingmen may adopt and use a label or device for the purpose of designating and distinguishing any goods, wares, or merchandise or other product of the labor of the association or union of workingmen or of a member or members of the association or union. A copy of any such label or device may be filed in the office of the Secretary of State upon payment of a fee of $1.00. (Code 1907, §4876; Code 1923, §8990; Code 1940, T. 26, §330.)
AL Code § 25-7-15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.|Chapter 7 - Labor Unions and Labor Relations.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 25-7-15 - Provisions of Article Cumulative.

Section 25-7-15Provisions of article cumulative. The provisions of this article shall be cumulative of all other laws in force on June 29, 1943, upon the subject, and, in the event of a conflict between laws in force on June 29, 1943, and the provisions of this article, then and in that event the provisions, offenses, and punishments set forth in this article shall prevail over such laws. (Acts 1943, No. 298, p. 252, §19.)