Employee Drug Testing
Employee Drug Testing

Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G

Publisher: BiblioGov

Published: 2013-06

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781289030629

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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the costs associated with federal employee drug testing and determined whether the potential for cost savings exists. GAO found that: (1) the costs incurred from federal agency employee drug testing result from meeting the Department of Health and Human Services' scientific and technical guidelines and the frequency of actual testing; (2) the potential cost savings included eliminating the requirement of submitting negative test results to a medical review officer, reducing requirements pertaining to drug-testing laboratory quality assurance programs, reducing the frequency of random drug testing, and collecting employee specimens with in-house personnel rather than contracting out for the service; (3) agency random drug testing varied in frequency from 4 to 100 percent; (4) positive test results remained constant regardless of the frequency of tests; (5) on the average, positive test results represented 0.3 percent of those employees tested; and (6) reducing the frequency of drug tests could potentially save $1 million.

Employee Drug Testing: Estimated Cost to Test All Executive Branch Employees and New Hires
Employee Drug Testing: Estimated Cost to Test All Executive Branch Employees and New Hires

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 10

ISBN-13:

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Your June 24, 1991, letter noted your Subcommittee's involvement in federal drug testing issues as part of its broader jurisdiction over personnel issues affecting civil servants. As part of the Subcommittee's continued oversight of agency drug testing programs, you asked that we estimate the cost of drug testing all executive branch employees. This report provides the requested information. As agreed with the Subcommittee, it also provides cost estimates for drug testing applicants for federal positions as well as estimates provided by the Department of Justice of what it has spent litigating drug testing-related cases. Executive Order 12564 (Sept 15,1986) established the Federal Drug-Free Workplace Program. This Executive Order required each executive branch agency to establish drug testing programs for employees in sensitive positions. It also required each agency to determine its own random testing frequency. Frequency, in this context, refers to the percentage of the number of employees in sensitive positions subject to drug testing that are tested annually. As we have previously reported, agencies vary widely in the frequency of random drug testing. For example, some agencies tested at a frequency of 100 percent while others tested at frequencies as low as 4 percent. To achieve more centralized policy oversight, the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) was designated as the lead agency in implementing the Executive Order in February 1991. In this role, ONDCP has taken on oversight responsibilities for federal drug testing programs. As part of its responsibilities, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHs) compiles a Federal Drug-Free Workplace Program Semi-Annual Survey that profiles executive branch agencies' drug testing programs.

Employee Drug Testing
Employee Drug Testing

Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G

Publisher: BiblioGov

Published: 2013-06

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781289058036

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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO analyzed the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) cost estimates for civilian cabinet-level departments' proposed drug testing programs. GAO found that OMB program guidance: (1) specified a dollar amount for estimating costs of specimen collection, drug testing, personnel, and quality control; (2) based those estimates on the cost information it had available at the time it issued the guidance; (3) allowed agencies to use alternative assumptions to its figures in developing cost estimates; (4) included cost estimates which did not adequately reflect the influence on individual agencies of such factors as employee location and resource availability; and (5) did not recommend specific dollar amounts for employee education or program administration. GAO also found that: (1) most agencies applied the proposed OMB figures in developing program cost estimates; (2) agency size and drug testing program size accounted for differences among agencies' total estimated costs; and (3) agencies' estimated costs for employee education and program administration ranged widely, even after accounting for variations in agency or drug testing program size. GAO believes that: (1) most agency programs are not yet sufficiently developed to determine the overall direction and magnitude of program costs in relation to OMB estimates; and (2) Congress may wish to direct agencies to track and report actual program costs.

Drug testing and volunteer work should be mandatory for welfare recipients
Drug testing and volunteer work should be mandatory for welfare recipients

Author: Hassan Nawaz

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2016-07-28

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 3656986541

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Academic Paper from the year 2016 in the subject Health - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: It is explored that US government has passed almost $11.0 billion in supporting the drug welfare families, educating them and preventing diseases in them. It is no doubt a huge amount to be allocated in the budget of 2016, (National Drug Control Budget, 2015). It is no doubt a sympathetic situation that government is spending so much for saving the drug victims and compromising the other important areas of infrastructure development, education, health care, etc. Further it is explored that drug abuses are very common in the US. US government has announced the federal funds for supporting the families of drug addicts and to save them from becoming victim. However, almost 8,300 people died due to the abuse of drugs, in the year 2003. Some proposed that there should be no spending done over drug welfare. There should be no way support the drug habits by paying dollars. They have argued that even keeping eye on the usage of public assistance would not even say money. On oppose, some has appreciated and respected the work of the taxpayers that are helping drug addicted in becoming work-qualified and good parents. It is found that drug test and volunteer work favoring party feel that if government make drug test mandatory, no undeserving families will claim welfare. Though initial cost of the programs and drug testing is expensive; but in the long term it will eradicate the cruse of drug and will also help the entire family from getting out of the drug curse. Treatment is no doubt expensive but it will make a person to avail benefit in the long run.