Drug testing of Florida employees may spark legal showdown

[seafan]

Source: St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald

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By signing an executive order last week that requires drug testing for many current state workers and job applicants, Gov. Rick Scott is betting the public is entitled to know a lot.
Legal scholars say the governor has overreached, and that his order contradicts what many consider to be settled law regarding drug testing of government employees.

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Scott's order applies to all employees and prospective hires in agencies that answer to the governor, and could affect as many as 100,000 people. Scott also supports a state Senate bill that requires all cash-assistance welfare recipients over the age of 18 to pay for and receive a drug test, a policy that could affect about 58,000 people.

Rich Templin, political director for the Florida AFL-CIO, said the governor's drug testing order is part of a broader campaign to vilify public employees.

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"I'm pretty certain that there will be a constitutional evaluation of this policy before it goes into effect," Simon (executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida) said.


Read more: http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/drug-testing-of-florida-employees-may-spark-legal-showdown/1159956

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Gov. Rick Scott's drug testing policy stirs suspicion, March 26, 2011


Why suspicion? It's really quite simple.


It's because this criminal is using it to pad his bottom line at his (now in his wife's name) Solantic walk-in clinics.

One of the more popular services at Solantic, the urgent care chain co-founded by Florida Gov. Rick Scott, is drug testing, according to Solantic CEO Karen Bowling.

Given Solantic's role in that marketplace, critics are again asking whether Scott's policy initiatives - this time, requiring drug testing of state employees and welfare recipients - are designed to benefit Scott's bottom line.

The Palm Beach Post reported in an exclusive story two weeks ago that while Scott divested his interest in Solantic in January, the controlling shares went to a trust in his wife's name.

This raised a groundswell of concern and questions about his health policy initiatives, especially his push to move Medicaid into private HMOs. Solantic does not take Medicaid but does business with private Medicaid HMOs. The questions are growing louder with Scott's executive order on drug testing.

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This defrauder of Medicare needs to be behind bars.


Criminals are running Florida's government.


And Justice has been chained up and buried alive.

[rzemanfl]

1. When a criminal gets elected you expect him to change? n/t

[brewens]

2. Drug testing might not be such a bad thing for their state employees.

Kind depends on what drugs they get to test!:smoke:

[cullen7282]

3. People on cash assistance have to pay for their own test?

To be on cash assistance you have to virtually have no other income. How the hell are they going to afford to pay for a drug test to get help if they have no money?

[Poll_Blind]

4. They'll just take the cost off the "top" of the payments, either in a lump sum or over time.

That way they get screwed just as hard as they can.

PB

[lib2DaBone]

5. I never understood why they take taxes out of unemployment insurance?

These Mo-Fos have no soul.. they have no remorse.. they have no feeling.. no ethics.. no religion.. nothing...

When will America stand up and smack the Bully in the face?

[Matariki]

7. That was courtesy of Ronald Reagan.

The guy who fucked up America.

[Blue Owl]

6. Blatant cronyism

Talk about making a big-government mountain out of a molehill...

[Dappleganger]

8. Who's going to pay for this?

Is he going to foot the bill out of his own piggybank?

[RainDog]

9. k&r n/t

[RagAss]

10. They voted for him and now he's taking them apart piece by piece.

All those retirees who supported him will soon have a look of horror and move out of the state.

[erodriguez]

11. Scott Walker owns a company that does drug tests...Move along nothng to see here of course

http://m.current.com/news/93105295_fl-governor-s-premeditated-plan-to-bloat-his-own-bank-account.htm

[Initech]

12. Take this to the Supreme Court - 4th amendment assholes!