The power tools you mentioned would make this a "safety sensitive" position IMHO. Thus you must take action. How do you determine that someone has reported to work "under the influence"? Do you have a medical clinic you use for pre employment physicals? Perhaps you can work with them to set up a drugand alcohol screening process. Have the company ever had to deal with this before? If not you need to establish your process and standards immediately so you know how to proceed. Basically one day when he reports to work he is told that he must provide an immediate urine sample that will then be tested. He goes home, with pay until you have the test results and then take action based on the results. If it indicates he had more than the legal driving limit (or whatever is the appropriate standard) he should be immediately terminated If this is going to take you some time to set up the logistics for this test you should also immediately sit him down and have a performance review. During this meeting you advise him of exactly where his performance is not meeting your expectations, what you exactly you expectations are and what will demonstrate improvement. You also set up weekly meetings to review the progress or lack there of. This should go on for no more that 3-4 weeks during which time you document the improvements or lack there of. If the performance is not satisfactory to you into termination mode..............
Posted by howard7