IS It Slander if Someone Calls My Work and Sayd Ive Been Smoking Pot?
Question by : IS it slander if someone calls my work and sayd Ive been smoking pot?
My friends spouse is threatening to call her work and say she has been using drugs. She works for an establishment with a 0% drug tolerance policy. Would that be slander or grounds for her employer to drug test. We live in West Virginia.
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Answer by scott b
Only if it’s not true.
But, who would WANT to work for a company that took action against an employee based on an anonymous, random phone call accusation?
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