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  • Essay / Do drug tests violate employees' privacy rights?

    In this essay is an investigation, discussed and, which falls within the scope of this essay, into providing answers to this question. Do drug tests violate employees' privacy rights? The answers are given by the presentation and analysis of different points of view evident in the literature in order to construct an argumentative case against or in favor, to finally draw the formulated conclusions. This is made possible by focusing on a perspective that considers existing ethics in normative theories. This means that theories of a higher philosophical bent, which examine whether employees are violating their employees' privacy rights by performing drug tests on them, are outside the scope of the essay. Finally, the scope of this essay is to be determined by another objective: the provision of answers to the essay question posed. This can help provide the necessary incentives for further work by other scholars. This argument that employers have the right to violate employees' rights to privacy by conducting drug tests is coupled with his other counterargument that employers conduct drug tests. on their employees in order to be aware of its productions to be against drugs used by employees that harm their performance at work. It is estimated that 44% of young people admitted to having used drugs in previous years. Today, it is the multitude of adults who are entering the country's job market. Faced with the alarmingly high number of people using drugs, some employers have had to implement drug testing programs at their individual establishments to identify current and potential employees and employers with drug habits. This is evident in the work of training author Moore (2011) who explains...... middle of article...... and Analysis, 2(8), 367-376.Ball, K. , Daniel, EM and Stride, C. 2012. Dimensions of employee privacy: An empirical study. Information Technology and People, 25(4), 376-394. Faragher, J. 2013. Drug testing at work. Occupational Health, 65(7), 12-13.Fit2zpatrick, JJ and Perine, JL 2008. National labor legislation adopted in 2007. Monthly Labor Review, 3-31.Lamberg, ME, Kangasperko, R. and Partinen, R. . 2008. Finnish legislation on drug testing in the workplace. Forensic Science International, 174, 95-98. Gilliom, J. (1996). Surveillance, privacy, and the law: Employee drug testing and social control policies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Moore, A.D. (2011). Privacy rights: moral and legal foundations. Sl: Pennsylvania State University. Potter, B.A. and Orfali, S. (1998). Drug testing at work: a guide for employers. Berkeley, California: Ronin Pub.