Common use of EMPLOYEE DRUG TESTING Clause in Contracts

EMPLOYEE DRUG TESTING. Employees will be required to take drug tests as a condition of continued employment in order to ascertain prohibited drug use as provided below: 1. The Public Safety Director/Designee may order an Employee to take a drug test upon documented probable cause that the Employee is or has been using drugs. A summary of the facts supporting the order shall be made available to the Employee prior to the actual test. 2. Members of the POLC (Command, Detective, Police Officers & Dispatchers) shall be uniformly tested during any random testing required by the department. All POLC members will be randomly tested in the first year of the program and will be randomly selected thereafter. a. The Public Safety Director/Designee and a representative from the POLC shall determine the frequency and timing of such tests. b. The Employees chosen for random testing will be by a lottery system mutually agreed upon by the Public Safety Director/Designee and the POLC. The Union presidents of each bargaining unit or his/her designee shall be present at the time of the random drawing. c. The presidents of each bargaining unit of the POLC or his/her designee will receive a list of the Employees that have been required to take a drug test after all Employees in that particular group have submitted or have refused to submit a urine sample to the laboratory testing personnel. d. A drug screening test shall be considered as a condition of acceptance to the narcotics unit.

EMPLOYEE DRUG TESTING. Employees will be required to take drug tests as a condition of continued employment in order to ascertain prohibited drug use as provided below: 1. The Public Safety Director/Designee may order an Employee employee to take a drug test upon documented probable cause that the Employee employee is or has been using drugs. A summary of the facts supporting the order shall be made available to the Employee employee prior to the actual test. 2. Members of the POLC (Command, Detective, Police Officers & Dispatchers) shall be uniformly tested during any random testing required by the departmentDepartment. All POLC members will be randomly tested in the first year of the program and will be randomly selected thereafter. a. The Public Safety Director/Designee and a representative from the POLC shall determine the frequency and timing of such tests. b. The Employees employees chosen for random testing will be by a lottery system mutually agreed upon by the Public Safety Director/Designee and the POLC. The Union presidents of each bargaining unit or his/her designee shall be present at the time of the random drawing. c. The presidents of each bargaining unit of the POLC or his/her designee will receive a list of the Employees employees that have been required to take a drug test after all Employees employees in that particular group have submitted or have refused to submit a urine sample to the laboratory testing personnel. d. A drug screening test shall be considered as a condition of acceptance to the narcotics unit.