A federal agency is seeking to add hair testing to the government’s arsenal of workplace drug screening tools, despite evidence that the process is unreliable and may lead to racial bias. The proposed ...

A municipal employer that conducted hair follicle drug testing on police officers was not entitled to summary judgment on a Title VII disparate impact claim, because a reasonable jury could conclude ...

Imagine being denied work — not because of your qualifications or work history, but because a drug test required for employment comes back positive for a drug you never used. Now imagine learning that ...

The AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department (TTD) is trying to clip a proposal to test truck drivers’ hair for traces of drugs instead of checking their urine. Supporters of the proposal, which is ...

More employers are screening their employees for potential drug use. At some companies a popular new test is replacing the standard urine sample, and some say it is violating the rights of future and ...

Hair-testing advocates say it could help keep lifestyle drug users off the highways. This crash made national headlines, when an Amtrak train carrying Republican congressional members hit a refuse ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] A report sent to Congress earlier this summer said that the reason for a nearly three-year delay in developing a proposed hair ...

Major trucking leaders continue to advocate for the option of drug testing using hair instead of urine in federally mandated company driver pre-employment screening and random testing. The federal ...

ROCKVILLE, Md. ­­­— A hair drug-testing proposed rule has been forwarded to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review, a top official with the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health ...

Hair testing has gotten better over the years. Labs have standardized their procedures. And demand is rising, which will presumably continue to drive quality up and cost down. In late 2005 and early ...