Legal Question in Employment Law in Utah

Can your employer legally make you stop taking a prescription medicine?? In this case the medicine being Methyphenidate (Ritalin) for ADHD?


Asked on 6/26/10, 8:34 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Alvin Lundgren Alvin R. Lundgren, L.C.

No. Your employer cannot make you do anything you do not want to do. Example: If there are regulations that prohibit one from operating certain machinery because of a medication, then your employer can forbid you from operating those machines while using the medication. Your course of action would be to get another job.

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Answered on 6/28/10, 7:14 am


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