Should Companies Test for Drugs?
The idea of drug testing at the work place has gained much support, as well much resistance, in America over the past decade. In two conflicting essays, authors Debra R. Comer, an adviser at Hofstra University, and Peter B. Bensinger, the CEO of Bensinger-DuPont Associates which promotes healthy outcomes in the workplace, present the negative and positive effects of drug testing in the working environment. Bensinger, author of "Drug Testing in the Workplace" acknowledges the fact that drug testing will do little to create a drug free work place; rather, it will ensure a more safe working environment for a company's greatest asset, it's employees, in several ways, and also discusses the appropriate ways to go about testing an employee. Comer, author of "A Case against Workplace Drug Testing", on the other hand illustrates "the misconceptions about drug use and testing, underscores the technological limitations of testing, and reviews research on......
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