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Blackouts: When Your Employee Doesn’t Remember Being Sent Home Drunk

Dealing with an employee you have previously reprimanded is difficult.

Dealing with blackouts: when your employee doesn’t remember being sent home drunk is even more complicated. Disciplinary action is an unfortunate necessary responsibility of a supervisor. Well documented disciplinary action will focus on work performance and is the best way to make an uncomfortable situation bearable for both you and the employee. Read the rest of this entry »

Alcohol on the Breath: What It Means and What It Doesn’t Mean

Do not think just because an employee has alcohol on the breath they have been drinking or are drunk.

Alcohol is odorless. Since it has no smell, what you may identify as alcohol is actually any number of other aromas, things we general find in alcoholic drinks (besides the alcohol). The smell of non-alcoholic beer on the breath is the same as alcoholic beer. Even law enforcement officers have found the strength of someone’s alcoholic breath is completely unrelated to how much alcohol they have in their system. Read the rest of this entry »