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Regulators have made clear that pre-cannabis drug and alcohol policies need updating, and the Fair Work Commission keeps deciding cases on clauses most policies don’t have. These guides cover what to fix, in what order, before the next disclosure or non-negative result lands on your desk.
Update your D&A policy
The pillar guide: every clause a medicinal-cannabis-ready policy needs, and why.
Read the guideDisclosure, privacy and medical information
What you can require, what you can’t demand, and how to handle what you learn.
Read the guideTesting standards explained
AS/NZS 4760:2019, AS/NZS 4308, AS 3547 — and the cut-off mismatch that became evidence.
Read the guideImpairment vs detection
The design decision at the heart of every policy — and the defensible ways to make it.
Read the guideDiscipline and procedural fairness
How employers with valid reasons still lose — and the process that holds up.
Read the guideFive FWC decisions to read
The case law distilled: what each decision rewarded and punished.
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