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 The Netherlands
In The Netherlands there is no legislation which regulates workplace drugtesting.
Furthermore pre employment drugtesting (and other clinical chemistry tests) is prohibited by law (protection of the applicant). Trade unions and occupational health physicians have objections to WPDT because it is an infringement of the individual privacy.
Only one laboratory is performing WPDT. Annually 20.000 drugtests are performed for about 30 companies. Most companies with a drugtesting programme have activities in the petrochemical or shipping industry As there is no legal basis for WPDT drugtests are not obligatory and the employees have the right to refuse. The basis for a workplace drugtesting programme is the agreement about the drugtesting procedure between the employer and the workers council (in which members of several Trade unions). |
