Ross Weeks wrote:
>
>     Heavens!  Let's just agree that certain drugs are ILLEGAL as someone has
> again pointed out.  Let's also agree that an employer can require employees
> to abide by the law and establish a Zero Tolerance policy toward the use of
> these substances.   They are illegal.  Employers can fire staff who are
> convicted of DUIs, public drunkenness, illegal sexual conduct, and other
> violations of the law in one's private life.
>

The key here is "convicted."  If my employer wants to conduct a search
of any kind of my person or property (not Museum property), they can go
to the police, show probable cause, and let the police serve a warrant.
The can not rummage around my home or my bodily fluids on a random
basis!  Perhaps the original poster should consider exploring forming a
union to stand up to what appears to be an arbitrary decision by their
management?  We are professionals, and should be treated as such.

--
James H Tichgelaar
Registrar, Arkansas State University Museum
http://museum.astate.edu

"All we ever wanted was everything.  All we ever got was cold."

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