TY - JOUR
TI - Employee’s obligation to submit to preventive tests for sobriety
AU - Rycak, Magdalena
TI - Employee’s obligation to submit to preventive tests for sobriety
AB - 
	The article presents an analysis of employees’ obligation to be sober in the context of legal possibilities of running preventive sobriety tests on employees. It thoroughly discusses the Supreme Court judgment policy on employees’ obligation to be sober in the workplace and legal consequences of their failure to fulfil this duty. The article also conducts a critical analysis of the opinion that  an employer can carry out preventive checks only based on an employee’s consent expressed on his/her own initiative. The author proves that a contrary thesis is right and that, in case of some jobs, such as drivers or persons working at height, an employer is obliged to do preventive tests for employees’ sobriety and employees are obliged to take such tests. At the same time, employees’ consent to process data concerning the state of their sobriety is not required. 

	ASJC: 3308

	JEL: K31
VL - Volume 26 (2019)
IS - Tom 26 Zeszyt 4
PY - 2019
SN - 1429-9585
C1 - 2544-4654
SP - 389
EP - 401
DO - 10.4467/25444654SPP.19.019.10909
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/szppips/artykul/employees-obligation-to-submit-to-preventive-tests-for-sobriety
KW - obowiązek trzeźwości w pracy
KW - prewencyjne kontrole trzeźwości pracowników
KW - obowiązek dbałości o stan bezpieczeństwa i higieny pracy
KW - prawo do bezpiecznych i higienicznych warunków pracy / obligation to be sober in the workplace
KW - preventive sobriety tests on employees
KW - obligation t