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Full Federal Court upholds zero-tolerance drug sacking

An employer was entitled to sack a worker for deliberately disobeying its zero-tolerance drug and alcohol policy, even though there was no evidence his drug-taking caused a safety incident, a full Federal Court has confirmed.

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