Pay for pre employment drug screens

Ruskanen

Do any of you make your applicants pay for pre employment drug screens? Under what circumstances do you do that?

System

This may depend on which state you're in. Here's are links to some previous discussions here on the forum:

Drug Tests
[url]http://www.hrhero.com/employersforum/DCForumID14/429.html[/url]

Pre-Employment Physical Cost
[url]http://www.hrhero.com/employersforum/DCForumID14/504.html[/url]

Christy Reeder
Website Managing Editor
[url]www.HRhero.com[/url]

Down_the_Middle

Louisiana law prohibits this from being done, so suggest checking your state laws to confirm.

jules2001

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 03-19-02 AT 09:05AM (CST)[/font][p]Kansas does not allow that either. I also had that problem. I have started tesing sometime during the first 90 days of employment. I have a company that comes here. It makes it a little more random. It also causes more paperwork sometimes but I have fewer tests that I am paying for, for no reason. It is part of my new hire orientation that they sign our drug policy and are therefore aware they will be tested and terminated if they fail.