BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 19. Employers'
responsibility has been increased to prevent the employment of drug
addicts, Trend
reports.
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev approved
relevant amendments to the Labor Code and the law "On drug service
and control".
Thus, it's planned to improve the regulatory legal framework in
order to increase the employer's responsibility to prevent the
employment of drug addicts in professions and positions where
activity restrictions are provided for drug addicts.
When accepting employees to professions and positions where
activity restrictions are provided for drug addicts, the employee
must submit a medical examination (medical check-up) report issued
by a state drug addiction medical institution, and if reasonable
doubts arise during the performance of the employee's labor
function, an appropriate periodic or extraordinary mandatory
medical examination will be conducted at the employer's
expense.
Besides, if it's revealed that an employment contract has been
concluded regarding the employment of a person with a drug
addiction in the professions and positions mentioned in Article 74
of the Labor Code, or if it is determined during a medical
examination during the employment relationship that the person has
a drug addiction, the employee's employment contract is terminated
as a ground independent of the will of the parties.
