Provide specific and personalized accommodation for
employees with addictions who test positive (to the point of undue hardship)
The takeaway for employers is that you may have to accommodate
an employee with an addiction to cigarettes.
Not exact matches
The humane response of the Yankees management to the problems of one of its star players serves as a great example of how an organization should deal
with employees who are struggling
with addiction.
Employees with drug
addictions are at higher risk for stealing to support their habit.
Recent successes include securing an order from the Ontario Labour Relations Board declaring a union - led plant occupation to be unlawful, overturning a Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board decision in the Court of Appeal relating to the application of the «build up principle» in the construction industry, and upholding the termination of an
employee with a marijuana
addiction for repeated abusive behaviour towards management.
For example, in Elk Valley the Supreme Court of Canada considered whether or not a health and safety policy regarding drugs and alcohol discriminated against an
employee with a drug
addiction.
Under the Policy,
employees with a drug habit or
addiction were encouraged to voluntarily disclose their drug use to the Company.
Increasing numbers of
employees are struggling
with mental illness and
addictions in today's workplaces.
Perhaps the issue is that the
employee is not required to inform her employer that she has an
addiction when asked — rather — the
employee just has to provide evidence (presumably from her doctor or «treatment» provider) that she has a disability and what sort of workplace accommodations she needs to deal
with that disability.
(a) a qualified member of another profession, such as a physician, lawyer, pastoral counselor, probation officer, court
employee, nurse, school counselor, educator, chemical dependency counselor accredited by a federal agency, or
addiction counselor licensed pursuant to Title 37, chapter 35, from performing duties and services consistent
with the person's licensure or certification and the code of ethics of the person's profession or, in the case of a qualified member of another profession who is not licensed or certified or for whom there is no applicable code of ethics, from performing duties and services consistent
with the person's training, as long as the person does not represent by title that the person is engaging in the practice of professional counseling;