my husband has worked for a company for 11 years, there is no current drug policy established in their employees handbook. Today he was asked to sign a form agreeing to random drug testing. Does he have to sign this? Can he be terminated if he refuses to sign it? There is no reason for him not to, he would pass but the employer is constantly changing "the rules" on how the daily business runs.

No, he does not have to sign it. Yes, he can be fired if he refuses. His choice.

KS has no laws that would make such a policy illegal.

It really depends on what the company says will happen if he does not sign the new drug policy.

I am a Kansas resident and have a bachelors degree in human resources with a masters degree in information systems. A company policy manual is written to help the company organize rules that will ultimately determine the integrity of the company itself. A drug policy is merely complying with an already uniform understanding of where the company stands on that issue.

It will not harm your husband to comply with the company policy. Employers usually feel resisting employees make bad employees and they might terminate him if he refuses.

Kansas Law can be found at kansas.gov in the legislative arena.

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appeal

I know what you mean about the moderator. He is not from Kansas and just wants to be in control of something. He is suppose to be a human resource consultant from West Virginia. He knows absolutely nothing about Kansas unemployment insurance or what it is like to be in an appeals hearing. I'm so glad you stood up to him and showed him that this is a [public] forum and not his personal web site. Did you know he has a personal Web site?

Appeal if you had actually done research you would realize that cbg is not from West Virginia but from MA. Now just because someone does not live in a particular state does not mean that they are not knowledgeable of the laws there. Many companies are multi-state employers and thus those of us in HR & Payroll must be well versed in every state laws. So do us all a favor and shut up unless you can actually provide beneficial advice instead of just your bellyaching about someone.

Appeal, I'm curious. When your post says, you know what you mean about the moderator, to whom are you responding? It certainly looks as if you are responding to yourself.

I'm also curious as to which part of my post you feel is legally incorrect.

I am also curious about that....

there is more than one person answering under the name appeal at this location. instead of counting on one person's answers being correct, we use a "meeting of the minds" forum before answering or making statements. As far as West Virginia...well, I'm sure he was just jealous that the answers from "appeal" were right on the money. prove us wrong!

Prove you're right.

Frankly, the more people I have on this board providing correct answers, the happier I'll be. That doesn't mean I'm going to put up with any nonsense.

It is still a mystery to me how West Virginia got into this in the first place. I am not now, nor have I ever been in West Virgina, so "appeal" is not right about everything! I'm also unclear as to why my having a personal website (and I don't; that's my company website, not a personal one of my own, in my profile) is a matter for derision. Many people have personal websites; why is that a bad thing?

Finally, you have still not shown what answer I've given that is legally incorrect. Could that be because, it isn't?

Correct answers are welcome here. The more correct answers the better. But respect to the other posters is also a requirement.