Pain Points: You Suspect an Employee is Under the Influence of Alcohol

It’s Friday afternoon, one of your employees comes back from lunch and after a brief conversation with them you can smell alcohol. As a new business owner, you’re not sure what to do, but there is a no tolerance policy for alcohol use during business hours in your employee handbook.  After questioning the employee, the employee denies it, but you’ve never been more certain that this employee has consumed alcoholic beverages. What can you legally do next?

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