August

An employee's use of illegal drugs, whether at work or at home, can affect relationships with colleagues, increase absence, reduce productivity and cause an unsafe working environment. The possession of illegal drugs, and buying or selling them, also exposes employees to the risk of criminal charges. Employers have a legal duty to ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of all their employees. This involves providing a safe place (and systems) of work. What this requires of the employer will depend on the nature of the business and the particular role of the employee concerned. The Information Commissioner's Office has issued good practice guidance which contains some recommendations for situations where drug testing will or will not be acceptable.

Nearly 30,000 foreigners arrested in Britain over the past year turned out to have police records in their own country. And that 's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the growing influx of criminals - including murderers and rapists - crossing our borders with ease. Because a Sunday Mirror investigation revealed that out of a shocking total of 190,000 foreign nationals arrested here in the last 12 months, fewer than half (46%) had their homeland backgrounds checked by police forces. The frightening figures from criminal records office ACRO, emerge in the wake of a series of terrifying crimes carried out by migrant offenders who have hidden their past from British authorities. And Labour 's Shadow Immigration Minister David Hanson vowed to raise the ACRO figures with Home Secretary Theresa May.

On June 3, 2015, the Ontario government introduced Bill 113, the Police Record Checks Reform Act, 2015, legislation that would, if passed, implement a new process governing requests for searches of the Canadian Police Information Centre databases, or other police databases, in connection with screening an individual for certain purposes.

Among other things, the Bill would: authorize Ontario police services to offer three types of records checks: criminal record checks, criminal record and judicial matters checks and vulnerable sector checks and limit and standardize the types of information that are authorized for disclosure in respect of each type of check. Persons or organizations that willfully contravene certain provisions of the Act would be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of not more than $5,000.