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Employer Lessons on Non-DOT Drug Testing Gleaned From EEOC Lawsuit

Posted on 07/20/2018 at 10:34 AM by Russell Samson

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Russ Samson

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On June 28, 2018, the EEOC filed a lawsuit against Steel Painters, LLC in the Eastern District of Texas.The lawsuit alle...

Iowa Will Permit Employers to Have a Lower Standard For Positive Alcohol Tests July 1, 2018

Posted on 04/04/2018 at 02:57 PM by Russell Samson

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Russ Samson

Tagged As: alcohol testing, drug testing, employment agreement, employment attorney, employment contract, employment law, employment law attorney, employment legal advice, Governor Kim Reynolds, Iowa Employer Law Blog, labor attorney, labor lawyers, labour law, lawyers specializing in wrongful termination, local attorneys, work lawyer, amended legislation, employer liability issues, employment policies, Governor Reynolds, new rules, private sector, state labor laws, labor & employment

Iowa’s statute regulating drug and alcohol testing for private sector employers establishes a number of different...

2017 alcohol testing amendments to Iowa's private sector drug-testing statute

Posted on 06/21/2017 at 01:30 PM by Russell Samson

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Russ Samson

Tagged As: alcohol testing, Des Moines employment attorney, discrimination lawyers, drug testing, employers' drug testing policies, employment agreement, employment attorney, employment contract, employment law, employment law attorney, employment legal advice, Iowa DOT, Iowa employers, lawyers specializing in wrongful termination, work lawyer

On May 9, 2017, then-Governor Terry Branstad signed Iowa Senate File 32, “An Act relating to private sector employ...

2017 amendments to Iowa's private sector drug-testing statute allow for testing hair samples of prospective employees only

Posted on 06/07/2017 at 10:33 AM by Russell Samson

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Russ Samson

Tagged As: Des Moines employment attorney, drug policy, drug testing, drug use in employment, EEOC, eeoc lawyer, employers' drug testing policies, employment agreement, employment attorney, employment contract, employment law, employment legal advice, Iowa Employer Law Blog, labor lawyers, lawyers specializing in wrongful termination, legal advice, work lawyer

On May 9, 2017, then-Governor Terry Branstad signed Senate File 32, “An Act relating to private sector employee dr...

Employers need requirements for immediate reporting of work-related injuries and post-accident drug-testing policies

Posted on 07/27/2016 at 10:29 AM by Russell Samson

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Russ Samson

Tagged As: drug testing, Iowa Employer Law Blog, OSHA

On May 12, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the United States Department of Labor published in...

The critical role of an MRO in drug testing - Federal and Iowa

Posted on 05/11/2016 at 12:02 PM by Russell Samson

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Russ Samson

Tagged As: drug policy, drug testing, drug use in employment, employers' drug testing policies, Lisotto v New Prime

The unpublished May 3, 2016, decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Lisotto v....

Thoughts of Colorado's legalization of recreational marijuana leads to an Iowa drug testing reminder

Posted on 03/07/2016 at 07:24 AM by Russell Samson

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Russ Samson

Tagged As: drug testing, Iowa employers, marijauna

Readers of Doonesbury and current event watchers are aware that, by virtue of a ballot-initiative amendment to the...

Statute supercedes the written policy (part 2 of 3)

Posted on 03/07/2016 at 07:24 AM by Russell Samson

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Russ Samson

Tagged As: drug testing, Iowa employers, workplace injuries

As noted in yesterdays blog post, the S & J written drug testing policy asserts that employees who are involved in...

Drug testing: Iowa Court of Appeals affirms strict compliance with state law required of employers (part 1 of 3)

Posted on 03/07/2016 at 07:23 AM by Russell Samson

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Russ Samson

Tagged As: drug testing, employer, Iowa Code, Iowa Employer Law Blog, workplace injuries

The September 6, 2012, decision of the Iowa Court of Appeals in Skipton v. S & J Tube, Inc. contains some important...

Colorado Supreme Court: Employer's zero-tolerance drug policy trumps Colorado's medical marijuana law

Posted on 03/07/2016 at 07:23 AM by Melissa Schilling

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Melissa Schilling

Tagged As: Colorado Supreme Court, drug policy, drug testing, Iowa employers, Iowa employment law, medical marijuana

Co-Authored with Russell L. Sampson and Jill R. Jensen-Welch For years, employers have struggled with the implications o...

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