EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND CHECKS

Pre-Employment Drug Screening in North Carolina

Employment drug screening and testing is covered by N.C. Gen. Stat. §95-230 et seq.

We provide convenient pre-employment drug screening and drug testing primarily through  Quest Diagnostics  with thousands of offices located nationwide.

Please also note that all employment background check, drug screening, driving record and state release authorization forms are available in a PDF format file to our Automated Employment Screening Clients.

All of these FCRA compliant release documents may be e-mailed to the applicants and easily completed online.

In North Carolina, employers may require drug testing with few if any restrictions.

Employers must provide their employees as  with written notice of their rights and responsibilities as enumerate in the Controlled Substances Examination Regulation Act.

Costs for drug tests must be paid by the employer.

Employee’s requests for retests are at the employee’s expense.

Re-Testing: Applicants may insist on a re-test of a positive sample result at the same or another approved laboratory.

On site drug testing results should not be used to fire an employee. Only tests performed by an approved lab may be considered.

Employers may not discriminate by testing only certain groups of employees by race or gender for drug testing.

Nor, may they defame an employee by publicizing an employee’s positive test results.

ADA. An applicant who is taking medication for a disability is protected by the Americans With Disability act (ADA.)

Drug Free workplace credit on Workers’ Compensation premiums.

A 5 percent  credit on workers’ compensation insurance premium ia available for qualified and certified employer drug or alcohol abuse prevention programs in the workplace.

The employer’s program must include a compliance policy statement, notice of the policy to all employees and prospective employees, and confidentiality of all matters pertaining to the program must be maintained.

Also, the employer must include provisions for random sampling and conducting of a second test to be administered within 30 minutes of the first test.

Unemployment benefits and workers’ comp benefits may be denied if an employee refuses to test or there is evidence of intoxication from either alcohol or a controlled substance.

Our  Automated Employment Screening provides an applicant controlled process that allows FCRA compliant background check forms, including Electronic Chain-Of-custody  forms and  releases to be completed online by the applicant.

We provide several short   videos    to  easily acquaint you with the system.

This makes the background check process fast and easy.

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