The State of Ohio Drug-Free Workplace Policy
-- The State of
Ohio prohibits all employees on official business, on or off the
workplace, from purchasing, transferring, using or possessing
illegal drugs, or abusing alcohol, or abusing prescription drugs
in any way that is illegal. READ
MORE.... also OHIO Workers' Compensation
Premium Reduction Rule The Ohio State Bureau of Workers'
Compensation has issued a rule that provides for a five-year
phased-in workers' compensation insurance premium reduction that can
rise as high as twenty percent. Employers
receive different discounts based on the type of drug-free
workplace program that is implemented. At the lowest level (six
percent), employers must establish a written policy, conduct annual
employee education and supervisor training, and conduct drug and
alcohol testing ( pre-employment, post-accident, reasonable
suspicion, and follow-up). As the discount
rises, random testing must be introduced as well as health care
coverage for chemical dependencies. Ohio Admin. Code
4123-17-58 (1997). Ohio Rev. Code §4123.34 (1995). Workers'
Compensation State law denies worker's compensation benefits
coverage to employees who are injured or killed in an accident while
under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol where the
intoxication or controlled substance was the proximate cause of the
injury. Ohio Rev. Code § 123.54 (1993). FOUND
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MICHIGAN Unemployment Compensation State
law provides that an employee may be disqualified from
receiving benefits if he or she was discharged for intoxication
while at work, refusing to submit to a drug test, or testing
positive on a drug test.. Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. § 421.29 (1996). FOUND
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