Random Alcohol Testing Gets Turned Down Again in Canada by the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in Irving Pulp & Paper Limited v. Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, Local 30 dealing with random alcohol testing in a workplace. It held that a unilaterally imposed policy mandating random alcohol testing with disciplinary consequences for either a failure to take the test or for a positive test result was unjustified, even in a dangerous workplace, in the absence of evidence of the requisite safety concerns that would justify such random testing.

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