and no one irl even has the decency to agree with me because it’s so fucking drilled into the culture that these fucking BuNsInNesSes have a Right to do this because it’s a bSUsniEss. like oh yeah they have an office building so they definitely get to analyze my piss because they say they want to. sick fucking freaks.
preaching to the choir a bit on lemmy (or i would hope so at least) but still
I would think it would be considered a HIPAA violation, though I’m sure “Safety” is given as a reason for why it’s allowed. And it’s possible there are some privacy protections given if you fail a drug test, but I’m sure it’s pretty obvious what happened to anybody involved with the hiring (“They interviewed great, but for some reason after they took the drug test we’re not able to hire them on. Huh, I wonder what happened.”)
It’s most often insurance that dictates when a company needs to drug test for “safety” reasons, also whether it is a government job.