It's also very common in the US. Even B&Q equivalents have signs up saying they drug test applicants and employees.bagpuss wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 12:44 pmA reasonable comparison would be civil engineering companies giving regular compulsory drug tests to their employees. I know of one company in the UK for certain where this happens, or at least did a small number of years ago and probably still does, and given that one does, I wouldn't be surprised if it's fairly standard practice. It saves lives if the people building bridges, tunnels and nuclear waste storage facilities, for example, are not impaired by drugs.monkey wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 11:15 amYes, this is why many healthcare providers will make sure their workers a vaccinated for all sorts, even when the law does not require them to, and it is not illegal for them to do so. It saves lives.bmforre wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 4:25 amMonkey and sheldrake: There are cases in Norway where old people have been infected by unvaccinated healtworkers resulting in their death, isolated and alone. Tragic.
Reportage covering one particular case in Norwegian that ought to pass machine translation in understandable form:
https://www.nrk.no/norge/pappa-koronasm ... 1.15696385
Bosses of the fatally infection spreading healtworkers firmly claim to have followed the rules in force so see themselves guiltfree while regretting deaths caused by unvaccinated workers.
Relatives have not gone to court yet AFAIK.
Theoretically, every Federal employee can be drug tested, but it's rarely carried out in my part of the government. There is a nice sign up saying we can't be forced to take polygraph tests though.