Quote Originally Posted by miidgetbob
I can't even read anymore of this thread. It's filled with responses like this. It's shocking. How is someone who's high and working the counter of a McDonalds or Wal-Mart and if it should be okay that they do get lumped in with deciding if murder is legal or not?
Because, all the other responses which i find equally shocking, are in support of the pothead at McDonalds who is in fact BREAKING THE LAW. The thread is not discussing the legality of marijuanna, but the legality of testing someone to see whether or not they have BROKEN THE LAW. Whether or not you believe the ILLEGAL act in question should be ILLEGAL is not rellvant. By performing said act, you are BREAKING THE LAW. I am attempting to show people WHY an employer would check for these things by comparing it to another law which people look at as a law, rather than a subjective arguing point. Whether or not you agree with drug laws, drugs are ILLEGAL. The company has every right to see whther or not they are employing CRIMINALS. Need I state this any more bluntly?

Quote Originally Posted by Joe
Employers check criminal records to see if a person has been Convicted of a crime, and sentenced by a court of law. In this country you are presumed innocent until proven guilty before a court of law, not until a private entity decides you have broken the law.

There's a time and place to be charged with a crime, and that is via legal means by Law Enforcement. Last time I checked, the local Hardee's was not Law Enforcement, and they weren't charging me with a crime for which my urine was required as evidence.
Your employer also doesn't arrest you when you show up positive, he fires you. That's his business. He sees that you have broken the law and no longer wishes to employ you. The exact same thing that happens when he looks at your criminal record and discovers that you have broken the law.