XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: pxhxz@cadence.com   
      
   In article  "Norman Wells"   
    writes:   
   >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.   
      
   But that's part of the problem.  In many cases they aren't testing for the   
   drugs themselves, but for the metabolites.  And the metabolites can be there   
   long after there is any effect from the drug itself.   
      
   -Pete Zakel   
    (phz@seeheader.nospam)   
      
   "The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided   
    by the number of people in the group."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)