There have been posting on and off about welfare recipients needing to be drug tested, mostly because if someone who is working has to be, then so should the ones not working. The link at the end, please do note, talks about not only prospective employees but current ones as well...and yes, there are rather strict rules about who can be tested, why they can be tested, and when they can not be tested {and btw blanket tests are not allowed, only single people, and with good cause along with several other rules.} One can not claim to be law-abiding then turn around and want whatever it is that they want to be exempt from the law of the land, which is basically the US Constitution. Several States have tried to pass the law, spent oodles of state money doing it, then had the State Supreme Court strike it down. It Is NOT Legal. It violates a persons 4th Amendment rights, rights that EVERYONE is guaranteed. And yanno what, from an accounting point of view, its not bloody cost effective, either. For those who claim I need to read a little deeper, I have read the US Constitution; I have read federal and state laws. The entitlements to these rights are not entitlements, they are rights given to everyone under the US Constitution, and as such are never to be subject to the whims and vagaries and interpretations of a person, a legislature/government employee, nor a State, not as they see fit, at any given time. That is the type of circular reasoning that has led to recent attempts of States to attempt {and have struck down by the Courts} such laws as those trying to let businesses refuse service to someone if they even think that that customer is gay, based on supposed religious beliefs. They were given, as individuals, the rights to religious freedom, a freedom that does NOT extend to negating nor infringing on the rights of others. The goal of the Law, at its purest and best, is to protect those who can not protect themselves, with the majority ruling, but not at the expense of the minority, but at the same time not to infringe on others rights. It is sometimes a slippery slope, and there are advances in thinking and science that have had to be accounted for, but the basic principle, the fundamental truth, must not be corrupted, ever. nolo/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/employee-rights-book/chapter5-3.html
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:28:12 +0000
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