By The year was 1988. Americans were obsessed with Rubik’s cubes, boom boxes, and all types of arcade games. At the same time, substance abuse was gripping the country and the workplace was not immune from its devasting, costly, and sometimes fatal effects. Employers...
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Stay Current: True or False? Drug Testing for Marijuana is About to Become Illegal in California
By Bill Current, President and Founder, Current Consulting Group, LLC, home of Current Compliance, the industry’s only comprehensive on-line source for all state laws that affect drug testing. Will California employers still be allowed to drug test...
New Drug Testing Technologies and State Drug Testing Laws
By Bill Current, President and Founder, Current Consulting Group, LLC, home of Current Compliance, the industry’s only comprehensive on-line source for all state laws that affect drug testing. This is an exciting time to be either a provider or user of drug testing....
Need That Test Result Yesterday!
by Katie Lemke, consultant at Working Partners® Still using paper custody and control forms (CCFs) but frustrated with delays or not knowing where your test is in the process? Why not give an electronic custody and control form (eCCF) a try? We know drug testing is a...
Where Are We and Where Are We Going? The State of Drug Testing and the Future
By Bill Current, president and founder of the Current Consulting Group and publisher of Current Compliance* Drug abuse is up. Positive drug test results are up. The number of companies testing for marijuana is down. We know this from three major...
The Great Retention: How to Hold onto Your Most Valuable Asset, Your Employees
By Penny Horton, SHRM-SCP, Executive Management and Human Resources Consultant penny.horton@hrraw.com By now, we have all heard terms like the great resignation and the great reprioritization, as well as a whole litany of arguments on all sides of the debate...
First-Time Conference Attendee Vows to Return
By Christine Tatum, CEO of Media Salad,Inc. I am not a drug-testing professional. I do not keep the federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's website bookmarked. I have no testing companies, specimen collectors or Medical Review Officers on speed dial. And when I...
Fast, Clean, Accurate Alcohol Testing – The Future is Here
By Michael Watson, Chief Revenue Officer, EVP, SOBRsafe COVID caused the world to coin a relatively new phrase seldom used before – “new normal.” And it quickly became applicable to the drug and alcohol testing industry as countless numbers of employers scrambled to...
Commit to Quality: Lessons Learned From the Search for Reliable COVID Tests
by Lynn Collins, owner, Southern New Hampshire Drug Testing, LLC No other experience has taught me more about the critical importance of doing your research when it comes to purchasing testing products than my mission to offer reliable, safe and efficient COVID...
State Drug Testing Laws: The Three Most Common Questions
By Bill Current, president and founder of the Current Consulting Group and publisher of Current Compliance* State drug testing laws can be complicated. Why? First, because there are so many of them. Second, because there are various kinds. For instance, there are:...