In Phillips v. Westcan, 2020 ABQB 764, the Court of Queen’s Bench for Alberta denied an employee’s application for a permanent injunction against his non-unionized employer to prohibit the employer from randomly testing its employees for drugs and alcohol. Phillips v. Westcan is an important decision for non-unionized employers in Canada that wish to make random drug and alcohol testing a condition of the employment of employees in safety-sensitive positions, as it provides guidance for how they may do so.

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