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Snippy · Force Majeure

RE: Don't forget your clean skidders

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

Where can I get one of those cats?

Snippy · Force Majeure

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Troll · 500 - Internal Server Error

Court further delays drug-test rule

WASHINGTON Implementation of DOTs proposed invasive and degrading strip-search drug testing rule is now on hold until at least February after the a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals here issued a formal stay pending filing of briefs and hearing oral argument on the matter. The court on Oct. 31 had issued a temporary delay (administrative stay) while it considered whether to put the rule on hold pending a hearing, which the court has now granted.

The UTU, others in rail labor and BNSF Railway sought the judicial delay and hearing into whether the proposed DOT rule, requiring strip searches of rail and transit workers during certain mandatory drug testing, violates the Constitutions prohibition against unreasonable searches. DOT wants to require direct observation of urine specimen collection in all cases involving a return-to-duty test following a positive drug test and a follow-up test after a positive drug test.

This rule initially had been scheduled to take effect Aug. 25, but DOT voluntarily delayed implementation until Nov. 1. In the interim, the UTU and other rail labor organizations appealed constitutionality of the proposed new DOT rule.

Under current rules, a rail carrier has the discretion to require direct observation during an individual return-to-duty or follow-up test, but is not required to do so. DOT wants to replace this discretion the mandatory-observation rule.

The rule would require a strip search in all instances of direct observation. Specifically, the currently delayed DOT rule would require that a same-sex observer employed by the railroad request the employee to raise his or her shirt, blouse, or dress/skirt, as appropriate, above the waist; and lower clothing and underpants to show, by turning around, that they do not have a prosthetic device [that could be used to deliver a substituted urine specimen].

After the railroad has determined that the employee does not have such a device, [it] may permit the employee to return clothing to its proper position for observed urination, according to the rule.

Astrobuck10 · Cured

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Cy Valley wrote:

Where can I get one of those cats?

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