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Labor/Employment

Apr. 30, 2004

Employers May Have to Rehire Substance Abusers

Employment Column - By Jon G. Miller and Tanja L. Darrow - Many employers reasonably assume that the law protects their right to terminate any employee who is found to have worked while under the influence of illegal drugs. Many of those same employers also would expect that, once fired, they are under no obligation to bring that employee back if the employee later applies to get his or her job back. To paraphrase an old adage, it is dangerous to assume.

        Employment Column
        
        By Jon G. Miller and Tanja L. Darrow
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