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When Employees Claim to Be Addicts—What, if Anything, Should Employers Do?

December 4, 2018

Via: HR Hero
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With the rise of opioid and other drug addiction in the US today, employers have to wonder—is it possible one of my employees is dealing with addiction? In the final article of a three-part series, Littler shareholder Dale L. Deitchler and associate Jeffrey E. Dilger, discuss how to handle issues of reported addiction and addiction relapse in the workplace. Here is part 1 and part 2. Update: the CDC just released that during 2017, more than 70,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, primarily from fentanyl.

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