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- BUSINESS, Page 65Business NotesLAWDrug Testing For Highflyers
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- The last thing an airline passenger wants is a pilot whose
- head is in the clouds. The Supreme Court last week reduced the
- likelihood of getting one when it let stand a Federal Aviation
- Administration rule requiring a "comprehensive antidrug
- program" -- random, unannounced urine tests. The action affects
- more than half a million workers in the air-travel industry,
- including flight crews and air-traffic controllers.
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- A San Diego airline pilot launched the legal challenge to
- the FAA rule, citing Fourth Amendment prohibitions of
- unreasonable searches. San Francisco's Ninth U.S. Circuit Court
- of Appeals upheld the FAA, and the high court leaves that
- decision intact -- ending the case, but not the controversy.
- "There's not really a serious drug problem in the federal work
- force," says a spokeswoman for the American Federation of
- Government Employees, which has filed several anti-drug-test
- lawsuits. "We think the government could be better spending the
- $79 million that it's got committed to drug testing this year."
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