Guinness staff agree that mandatory testing is not acceptable

MANDATORY alcohol testing is a contentious issue for unions, but it was a group of workers very familiar with alcohol who took the lead in the debate — Guinness staff.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions, at its biennial delegate conference yesterday, passed a motion by the staff in which it said mandatory testing of workers for alcohol was a breach of human rights.

The motion committed Congress to opposing mandatory testing while attempting to agree to a national alcohol in the workplace policy.