Common use of Prescription Medications Clause in Contracts

Prescription Medications. (a) The Authority may publish and from time to time amend a list of medications whose usage by an employee must be reported by him/her to a designated Authority representative. (b) In the event an employee intends to work while taking a prescribed medication not on the list referred to in the above paragraph, the employee must inform the prescribing physician of this intention and of the requirements of his/her job for the purpose of receiving the physician's advice as to whether taking the medication precludes the employee's safety and healthfully working at that job. (c) Whenever the Authority's Medical Director is aware that an employee is using any prescribed medication, the Medical Director may require such employee to obtain a written statement from the prescribing physician indicating that the employee is safely able to perform the requirements of his/her specific job. This written statement shall be on a form provided by the Authority and agreed to by the Union that summarizes for the physician such employee's job requirements. (d) After receiving the written statement referred to in the above paragraph, the Authority's Medical Director may from time to time, consistent with prevailing medical practice with respect to the underlying medical condition and the drug being administered therefor: (1) require the employee and his/her physician to provide information on the employee's usage of the prescribed medication, including the dosage, frequency and time of use, and relevant side effects on the employee, if any; (2) conduct a medical examination of the employee, including body fluid tests, for the purpose of determining whether the employee is taking the prescribed medication in conformity with the prescription. (e) Whenever the Medical Director and the prescribing physician disagree as to whether an employee's use or failure to use a prescribed medication renders such employee unable to perform safely the requirements of his/her specific job, such dispute shall be resolved by the procedures referred to in section 1101 above. For purposes of resolving such a dispute, the proviso set forth in the second paragraph of section 1101 above shall not apply.

Prescription Medications. (a) The Authority may publish and from time to time amend a list of medications whose usage by an employee must be reported by him/her to a designated Authority representative. (b) In the event an employee intends to work while taking a prescribed medication not on the list referred to in the above paragraph, the employee must inform the prescribing physician of this intention and of the requirements of his/her job for the purpose of receiving the physician's ’s advice as to whether taking the medication precludes the employee's safety ’s safely and healthfully working at that job. (c) Whenever the Authority's ’s Medical Director is aware that an employee is using any prescribed medication, the Medical Director may require such employee to obtain a written statement from the prescribing physician indicating that the employee is safely able to perform the requirements of his/her specific job. This written statement shall be on a form provided by the Authority and agreed to by the Union that summarizes for the physician such employee's ’s job requirements. (d) After receiving the written statement referred to in the above paragraph, the Authority's ’s Medical Director may from time to time, consistent with prevailing medical practice with respect to the underlying medical condition and the drug being administered therefortherefore: (1) require the employee and his/her physician to provide information on the employee's ’s usage of the prescribed medication, including the dosage, frequency and time of use, and relevant side effects on the employee, if any; (2) conduct a medical examination of the employee, including body fluid tests, for the purpose of determining whether the employee is taking the prescribed medication in conformity with the prescription. (e) Whenever the Medical Director and the prescribing physician disagree as to whether an employee's ’s use or failure to use a prescribed medication renders such employee unable to perform safely the requirements of his/her specific job, such dispute disputes shall be resolved by the procedures referred to in section 1101 above. For purposes of resolving such a dispute, the proviso set forth in the second paragraph of section 1101 above shall not apply.

Prescription Medications. (a) The Authority may publish and from time to time amend a list of medications whose medications, usage of which by an employee must be reported by him/her to a designated Authority representative. (b) In the event an employee intends to work while taking a prescribed medication not on the list referred to in the above paragraph, the employee must inform the prescribing physician of this intention and of the requirements of his/her job for the purpose of receiving the physician's advice as to whether taking the medication precludes the employee's safety and healthfully working at that the job. (c) Whenever the Authority's Medical Director is aware that an employee is using any prescribed medication, the Medical Director may require such employee to obtain a written statement from the prescribing physician indicating that the employee is safely able to perform the requirements of his/her specific job. This written statement shall be on a form provided by the Authority and agreed to by the Union that summarizes for the physician such employee's job requirements. (d) After receiving the written statement referred to in the above paragraph, the Authority's Medical Director may from time to time, consistent with prevailing medical practice with respect to the underlying medical condition and the drug being administered therefortherefore: (1) require Require the employee and his/her physician to provide information on the employee's usage of the prescribed medication, including the dosage, frequency and time of use, and relevant side effects on the employee, if any; (2) conduct Conduct a medical examination of the employee, including body fluid tests, for the purpose of determining whether the employee is taking the prescribed medication in conformity with the prescription. (e) . Whenever the Medical Director Department and the prescribing physician disagree as to whether an employee's use or failure to use a prescribed medication renders such employee unable to perform safely the requirements of his/her specific job, such dispute shall be resolved by third party, disinterested physicians jointly selected in each dispute by the procedures referred to in section 1101 aboveAuthority and the Union. For purposes The costs of resolving such a dispute, the proviso set forth in third party physician shall be borne by the second paragraph of section 1101 above shall not applyAuthority.