The whole concept is complex to say the least, I live in the midwest, very rural area and I know many industries and people around the area personally within those industries, both on the employee and employer side of the things.
Now I'm not sure where things went terribly wrong, but when a somewhat local huge name now global company hired 300 new workers this spring, but only 8 could pass the drug test, yes you read that right, only 8 out of the 300 passed, there is something terribly wrong in this country. Now the question remains is this, everyone knew up front, before they ever picked up an application, there was drug testing required in order to get the job, after those weeded out during the hiring process were reduced to only 300, and those 300 were told up to five times along the way, there was a pre hiring drug test and random drug testing, they still tried to slip through the cracks and actually showed up to be tested??
First this somewhat mystified me as to why they even attempt the test, then I was told by someone that I know personally who's in charge of hiring, the industry norm is only about 25 percent pass the first drug test to begin with, that stat also somewhat shocked me.
Now I've complained for decades about drug testing for a class A CDL and the hundreds of drug tests I've had to take and also pay for since I'm self employed and also hire some help, but to this day nobody has ever failed a single test while working for or around me. So you have to excuse me if the latest news is not only shocking but beyond scary to me.
Next step is fast food, not going to mention which one, but everyone knows it, a local company owns a series of them, again I know the person in charge of hiring, and as of two weeks ago, everyone single person in five stores failed their random drug test and had to be fired, all while four new stores are under construction and nobody can pass a drug test to even get hired, not even for the manager positions.................of the stores within that chain, most all have reduced hours open due to not enough drug free workers to keep enough staff on to be able to keep the stores open enough hours.
Now I'm not a rocket scientist, but when nobody can pass a drug test, whether it be for an assembly line worker, store manager or burger flipper, I'm not thinking wages, benefits or working conditions are the major issue at hand.