Australia: Can an employee refuse to provide a urine sample?

Is it lawful for an employer to insist on a urine sample when undertaking workplace drug and alcohol screening? Back in 2012, “Fair Work Australia” determined, on appeal, in respect to the collective agreement for Endeavour Energy Enterprise that an employer had no right to insist on the use of urine testing over that via an oral swab, even though the latter method was less reliable at the time …

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