US DOL Releases Final Regs on State Agency Drug Testing of UI Applicants

By |2016-08-03T14:26:26+00:00August 3rd, 2016|Categories: Unemployment Insurance|Tags: , , |

The final DOL regulations defining the circumstances under which UI applicants may be tested for controlled substances as a condition of being paid unemployment were released today. See https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-08-01/pdf/2016-17738.pdf . The final regulations continue a very narrow interpretation of an already narrow statutory provision describing the circumstances under which a state may perform drug tests. The [...]