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Subject:testing & hiring From:Ellen Adams <ellena -at- TOLSTOY -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 7 Mar 1995 16:54:41 CST
Who has a fork? I want to eat my words:
> Drug tests are okay. I don't mind; I don't do drugs. [snip]
Let me clarify *my* position on urinalysis for
hiring. What I was laboring to say was that drug tests
seem, to me, more easily defensible than psychological tests.
Testing for drugs in an employee's urine is a violation
of the Fourth Amendment. It's unreasonable search and seizure.
However, employers do it, and our conservative Supreme Court
has yet to rule the practice unconstitutional.
Since I do not indulge, I submit to such tests without fear
and without complaint.
That doesn't make it right.
Forgive me, list liberals.
Ellen Adams
Houston, TX
ellena -at- tolstoy -dot- sc -dot- ti -dot- com
