Transport company worker fired after failing drug test to be re-employed

FOR the second time in two weeks, an industrial relations body has ruled in favour of a transport company employee who failed a drugs test in the workplace.

In the latest case, the Labour Court ruled a maintenance worker for the Luas should be re-employed after he was dismissed for testing positive for a cannabis-related substance.

The worker was employed by Alstom Ireland, the French-owned multinational which maintains the Luas system, for two years before he was dismissed in September 2006 after residue of cannabis was detected in his system. He had been randomly tested as part of the company’s drug and alcohol at work policy.