Trina Roundy

Business Ethics
December 2017

Reflection

What did you learn by creating the signature assignment?

This was an eye-opening research assignment. I have always had a strong opinion on my

topic, pre-employment drug screening; specifically, due to privacy and HIPAA issues. I feel

passionately about employee rights and hope to see a lot of power given back to the American

worker.

The most important thing I learned in my research is that the laws that are protected by

the constitution with regard to any employment requirement but including drug screening only

pertains to government involvement and/or government employment. State laws are what

determines how pre-employment procedures and operations are executed, so in that light, there is

no constitutional protections regarding a lot of employment practices.

I honestly hope that the EEOC continues to take a look at these kinds of issues maybe

in this case its cause for Federal regulation to supersede state laws.