Drug Use & Unemployment 2

Drug use and unemployment is a problem that hasn’t quite gone away yet.  When employers are going through the screening process of hiring employees, it is of the utmost importance (especially depending on the type and line of work) that they screen all of their employees for drugs both before they are hired and sometimes periodically after they are hired.  This is done for several reasons.  First and foremost, employees who are working at jobs where there is a lot of heavy lifting involved or where they are required to operate heavy machinery may be putting other people’s lives at risk if they are high on drugs or alcohol.  It is not only a liability for them, but it is a bigger liability for the employer who hired them.