In the case Lunsford v. Sterilite of Ohio, L.L.C., 2020-Ohio-4193, 2020 Ohio LEXIS 1907, an Ohio appellate court found that a trial court correctly determined that the former at-will employees failed to sufficiently plead invasion-of-privacy claims, arising from the private employer’s implementation of a workplace substance-abuse policy requiring the employees to submit a urine sample for drug testing under the “direct-observation method” because the employees consented, without objection, to the collection of their urine samples under the direct-observation method. The employees’ claim that their consent was involuntary due to their fear of termination lacked merit, because the employer had the right to condition employment on consent to drug testing under the direct-observation method, the employees had the right to refuse to submit to the direct-observation method, and the employer had the right to terminate the employees for their failure to submit.
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Authors: Matthew John Markling and the McGown & Markling Team.
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