Gov. Rick Scott has capitulated in his crusade to require all state workers to submit to suspicionless drug tests, giving up on about half of the state’s classes of workers in a drawn-out legal battle that could end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Accountants, economists and translators at the Department of Economic Opportunity; museum curators and librarians at the Department of Environmental Protection; and painters, carpenters and groundskeepers at the Department of Military Affairs are among the nearly 1,000 job classes Scott’s lawyers have deemed totally or partially ineligible for drug screening, according to court documents filed last month.
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