Location: Utah
My wife recently finished pharmacy school and received a job offer. The offer would allow her to work while awaiting for her pharmacy license to be awarded. She has been working for the company for months per her agreement. She took a drug test early on in her application process but was asked to resubmit due to “some mix up”. She later received a call from a doctor to go over her results (which is weird itself) stating she tested positive for all kinds of illicit drugs at levels consistent with heavy regular use. This was a surprise and so she followed up considering she submitted a second sample that was clean and reported as such. This led to a series of calls by my wife as well as some minimal support from the employer to figure out what is going on. Apparently her name was signed as the submitter with not her signature and signed off as submitted by someone who was not working that day. These details are still foggy as they are already weird and this has been relayed to me. Since she passed her other and this was an investigation outside of the employer nothing really happened with the employer.
Until yesterday – her manager at a rep from HR (this is a massive national/international retailer) and she was told her they decided to terminate her employment. We are in a no reason to fire state and it makes sense a massive corporation wouldn’t want to bother with something like this.
She however now is not employed and this drug situation may impact her licensure and she has never done drugs and not to the test results. With everything already shady we want to come after the drug testing company for damages but don’t know what type of lawyer to look into or what is reasonable.