HR Chat: Alcohol Suspicions

Your manufacturing business is expanding, and you recently hired several new employees. Over the past few weeks, each of them has met the performance standards you expected at the time of hire. However, you have just received a complaint that one of the new employees smelled of alcohol while at work. Because employees are required to operate machinery, this presents a serious safety concern. Although you cannot confirm that the employee was under the influence, how should you handle this situation moving forward?

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