XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: no-one@myarl.co.uk   
      
   Colonel Colt wrote:   
   > "Paul Hyett"  wrote in message   
   > news:GqSIwtch4YEKFww3@blueyonder.co.uk...   
   >> On Mon, 18 May 2009 at 16:32:25, Dr John Watson   
   >>  wrote in uk.legal :   
   >>   
      
   >>> Employers are increasingly using drug testing to get rid of staff   
   >>> without having to make redundancy payouts, as a way of ­cutting   
   >>> costs during the recession, a ­charity has said.   
   >>>   
   >> There is a very easy way of avoiding this though - NOT TAKING DRUGS!   
   >>   
   > What business is it of an employer what a member of staff does in his   
   > off hours.   
      
   Nothing at all.  It's what he's doing in work time that concerns them.   
   That's why they test in work time, and proceed on the basis of what drugs   
   and in what concentration are found in his body while that body is at work.   
      
   It's like drink-driving.  You can still be over the limit the morning after   
   the night before.  It's not the time you take them that matters, but the   
   time they're there.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)