Drug testing: £84,000 for bus driver unfairly dismissed after drug test picked up cocaine traces

Bailes v First Bristol Ltd ET/1401728/2012

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A bus driver has been awarded nearly £84,000 after his employer failed to investigate his claim that traces of cocaine picked up on a mouth swab during a drug test were the result of contamination on his hands from passengers' banknotes.