Can you test a prospective employee for drug use as a condition of employment? Well, yes and no.<\/p>\n
Take a look at these two cases, Alberta (Human Rights and Citizenship Commission) v. Kellogg Brown & Root (Canada) Company, 2006 ABQB 302<\/em><\/a> from Alberta and Weyerhaeuser Company Limited v. Ontario Human Rights Commission, 2007 CanLII 4790 (ON S.C.)<\/em><\/a> from Ontario.<\/p>\n Both cases give a detailed analysis of the relevant caselaw in this area and discuss perceived disability, discrimination against a recreational drug user, safety sensitive positions and accommodation in a pre-employment context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Can you test a prospective employee for drug use as a condition of employment? Well, yes and no. Take a look at these two cases, Alberta (Human Rights and Citizenship Commission) v. Kellogg Brown & Root (Canada) Company, 2006 ABQB 302 from Alberta and Weyerhaeuser Company Limited v. Ontario Human Rights Commission, 2007 CanLII 4790 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law","category-human-rights-law","category-labour-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}