In house Breathyliser and drugs testing

robroy:
My other point is…Can they actually make you do it?
I don’t mean put your arm up your back, or two heavies sit on you :smiley: , I mean can they make you in terms of you have the right to refuse, and is it legal in that context to not let you go out in the truck if you do refuse, although there is no REAL suspicion of drinking, just fulfilling their quota on random testing.

There needs to be some sort of test case on this for clarification, I know some d/heads do turn up for work in varying degrees of unfitness, but it’s just another one size fits all policy as Juddian would say, decent drivers treated the same as the firm’s dicks.

Still,.as long as drivers are willing just to roll over, they will go on be faced with all types of injustices, humiliation, and unfair treatment…along with the ones who are not willing, …and because of them… :bulb:

It depends on the terms in the contract.

I can only comment on ours (different industry though), its in our contract and also in Network Rails policy on drugs and alcohol testing, that a refusal to any legitimately requested test (either for cause because of an incident, random, or medical/pre sponsor testing) will be marked as a fail. This can lead to the PTS card being revoked for a period of 5 years