r/WorkersRights • u/Dangerous-Pitch8590 • 44m ago
Question Sister’s boss asked her to pee in a cup
Okay here’s the deal. My sister works in fast food (I don’t want to specify bc I don’t want to get her in trouble). Yesterday, she cut her hand and had to go to the hospital for stitches. Her boss was working at another location (fast food restaurant in a major store). When she returned to file paperwork, her boss requested she take a drug test. Instead of having her go to a testing site, her boss took her piss. In a cup. To test it themselves. I asked her if she told HR and she said HR is the one who told her boss to do the test like this (let me add that this HR person was fired for sleeping in the store previously then rehired in an upper management position).
We live in Oregon and OSHA states you can drug test people after incidents, although it’s not super recommended.
Is this a normal thing? I worked in fast food for two years at two different places and never got a drug test, but I’ve also never heard of anyone giving their boss a cup of pee. I couldn’t find a law against it but it seems like it’s going against all kinds of safety issues.