Failed Drug Test Could Prevent Jobless Benefits
The S.C. House bill approved last week calls for suspension of unemployment benefits if someone failed or refused to take drug tests for employment.
Failing or refusing to take an employer's drug test could put a stop to your unemployment benefits if you're among South Carolina's jobless. Last week, the South Carolina House passed bill 4043, which allows an employer to "confidentially notify the Department of Employment and Workforce when a prospective employee fails a drug test required by the employer as a condition of employment." The bill, which passed 70-24, also states that the suspended benefits couldn't be restored until the person has successfully completed a drug treatment program and passes a drug test. The concept for drug testing the state's unemployed who receive benefits is one Gov. Nikki Haley has strongly supported since running for governor. "I so want drug testing…
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George Norman
2:11 am on Monday, April 16, 2012
Just because you get tested at your job doesn't make it right. If you get robbed then a week later your neighbor gets robbed, do you think it's all good then? I hope not, I would think that you would get together with your neighbor and take care of the sorry s.o.b. that is robbing your neighborhood. Our government should not be able to drug test people without due process of the law, or at the … more ›