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• Privacy Issues Employee Surveillance, Personal Appearance, Off-Duty Behavior, Drug and Alcohol Testing, Lie Detector Tests, and Psychological and Personality Tests are subtopics listed on this page of BusinessLaw.gov.
• Genetics Privacy and Legislation Federal and state policies on genetic testing privacy, proposed legislation, and suggestions for future legislation. From the U.S. Human Genome Project.
• Q's and A's on Drug Testing The length of time the drug or its metabolites can be detected in the urine is called the "retention time." This reproducible fact sheet is provided by the Connecticut Clearinghouse, a program of Wheeler Clinic, Inc. which is funded by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. In PDF format.

Web Sites

• Employee Privacy News articles on employee computer privacy from ITWorld.com and others.
• How To Spy On Your Employees...And Why You May Not Want To Employers fixated on monitoring employees may be wasting time and killing morale. Moreover, they may be setting themselves up to be sued. From zdnet.com.
• Historical Legal Basis for Drug Testing The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)'s mission is to move public opinion sufficiently to achieve the repeal of marijuana prohibition so that the responsible use of cannabis by adults is no longer subject to penalty.