· 7/21/1994
Webster v. Motorola, Inc.
Citations
- 637 N.E.2d 203
- 418 Mass. 425
How courts have described this case
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- noting that any nexus between the plaintiffs job responsibilities and risk of harm to human health and safety were “attenuated”
- finding that employer’s interest in drug testing of plaintiff employee to prevent harm to human health and national security outweighed his individual privacy interests
- holding a corporation’s legitimate business interest in ensuring that an employee not operate a motor vehicle while intoxicated by drugs outweighs the employee’s privacy interests under the Privacy Act
- explaining that the relevant privacy interest in employment drug test cases is 1
- balancing interests of employer in screening employees against the bodily intrusion of a urinalysis test
- evaluating MPA claim where employer required employees to submit to a urinalysis for drugs by balancing employer’s legitimate business interests with employees’ privacy interest
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Judges: Liacos, Abrams, Nolan, Lynch, Greaney
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