Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)

Ball was a bus driver for over 20 years and had an exemplary employment record. After the positive test, he took two additional hair follicle tests, widely accepted as being more reliable than the saliva test his employer, First Essex Buses, used. Both additional tests were negative, but First Essex refused to take the results into account or to consider the possibility of cross contamination, according to Unite.

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