Most employers have banned alcohol consumption during work time (including lunch time drinks) and I was curious as to how many of you have experience people coming to work having been affected by alcohol and this includes LE people as well. What are your war stories and what was the outcome ?
In 1 employer I was acting RLPM for 3 months and babysitting a store for the absent LPM, when 1 afternoon I smelt beer on the breath of an LPO. He admitted he had 4 beers at lunch and claimed to not know work policies (a BS story). I asked him about licence compliance rules and he stated it was 0.02 which is old information but agreed he could be over 0.02. I suspended him without pay and sent him home. Next day he took it further to HR and he was suspended again as he was still drunk from the night before and eventually never came bac to work again.
At our DC I was on a visit when I spotted a work approved lunch time BBQ in progress. It was supplied by us with the union kicking in 2 beers per man on the condition NO1 went back to work and took a 1 hour penalty to go home early. At 1330 everyone left except for the afternoon shift who had against policy had their own 2 at lunch. Immediately, the shift manager informs me they were to be suspended on no pay (unfit for duty) as the workers all got ready to walk into the DC. The union had screwed up an were now liable for the payment of the lost wages all because of 2 beers and heavy machinery including cranes and forklifts require Zero Alcohol. It cost them about $21.5 K US for those 2 beers.
In 1 employer I was acting RLPM for 3 months and babysitting a store for the absent LPM, when 1 afternoon I smelt beer on the breath of an LPO. He admitted he had 4 beers at lunch and claimed to not know work policies (a BS story). I asked him about licence compliance rules and he stated it was 0.02 which is old information but agreed he could be over 0.02. I suspended him without pay and sent him home. Next day he took it further to HR and he was suspended again as he was still drunk from the night before and eventually never came bac to work again.
At our DC I was on a visit when I spotted a work approved lunch time BBQ in progress. It was supplied by us with the union kicking in 2 beers per man on the condition NO1 went back to work and took a 1 hour penalty to go home early. At 1330 everyone left except for the afternoon shift who had against policy had their own 2 at lunch. Immediately, the shift manager informs me they were to be suspended on no pay (unfit for duty) as the workers all got ready to walk into the DC. The union had screwed up an were now liable for the payment of the lost wages all because of 2 beers and heavy machinery including cranes and forklifts require Zero Alcohol. It cost them about $21.5 K US for those 2 beers.
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