Report: Drug Tests Another Hurdle For Manufacturing Labor Market
manufacturing.net | July 28, 2017
As manufacturing plants become increasingly sophisticated and automated, many companies worry whether they will be able to find workers with the skills and expertise to operate them. Manufacturers that continue to provide more traditional blue-collar jobs, however, increasingly face a different obstacle: whether their job applicants can pass strict drug testing requirements. Executives from two manufacturers in economically hard-hit northeastern Ohio each told The New York Times that a significant portion of their potential workforce is unable to do so.