Italy: mandatory drug detection for some employees

The "Unified State-Regions Conference", which plays a prescriptive part in terms of health and safety at work, adopted, on October 30, a measure which plans regular drug detection for certain categories of employees who could represent risks for citizens if they take drugs and psychotropic drugs. (Ref. 070938)
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“Strongly desired” by the Health Minister Livia Turco (who had promised it last May when two school kids had passed away in a bus accident, the driver of which had taken drug) this measure fills in a 17 year old legal blank, because it introduces the guidelines planned in article 125 of the DPR No. 309/1990m “single law text in terms of narcotics and psychotropic drugs, prevention, care and rehabilitation for drug addiction”. It notably plans mandatory drug detection for employees working in se

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