As used in this article, the term: “Employee” means any employee required to be certified under the provisions of Chapter 8 of Title 35 receiving a salary or hourly wage from any state agency, department, commission, bureau, board, or authority. “Employee” shall also include any certified employee working under a personnel contract to provide personnel […]
Employees working in high-risk jobs shall be subject to random testing for evidence of use of illegal drugs. The head of each state agency, department, commission, board, bureau, or authority, in conjunction with the DOAS, shall determine those positions and groups of positions whose occupants regularly perform high-risk work where inattention to duty or errors […]
The State Personnel Board shall adopt rules to establish: The portion of employees in the high-risk work group that may be selected at random for testing at each testing period; Methods for assuring that employees are selected for testing on a random basis; Methods for assuring that privacy intrusions are minimized during collection of body […]
Any employee conducting high-risk work found to have used an illegal drug shall be terminated from his or her employment. Any employee who refuses to provide body fluid specimens, when requested to do so in accordance with the random drug testing conducted pursuant to this article and administrative rules and regulations promulgated under this article, […]
