False Us For Testing In California
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Fabrication or falsification involves unauthorized creation, alteration or reporting of information in an academic activity. Examples of fabrication or falsification include the following: Artificially creating data when it should be collected from an actual experiment.
Forgery. n. 1) the crime of creating a false document, altering a document, or writing a false signature for the illegal benefit of the person making the forgery.
Falsifying a document means to make a document appear to be genuine. This may occur when a document is altered to appear as if it was authorised, signed or created by someone who did not actually authorise, sign or create it.
Knowingly preparing false evidence or offering false evidence in a legal proceeding or investigation is a serious legal offense in California. In fact, it's a felony that carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison.
Falsifying documents can have both civil and criminal consequences, and may be punishable as a felony. The criminal penalties for falsifying documents can include fines and jail time, depending on the circumstances. The crime of falsifying documents is prosecuted under fraud statutes.
Federal law does not explicitly criminalize falsifying business records, but the act is criminalized under several federal regulations. Additionally, many states consider it a crime and sometimes prosecute it with other crimes, such as grand larceny or insurance fraud.
In California, falsifying a drug test can lead to severe legal penalties, including 16 months, 2 or 3 years in state prison, along with hefty fines.
You would need to seek the consult of an attorney to review everything to make a proper determination. However, to answer your question, yes, there may be liability if the test resulted in a false positive due to substandard testing or assays employed by the lab to determine results.
Depending on your company's policy, failing a drug test could lead to disciplinary action or you being dismissed. If your company has a zero tolerance policy to drugs, just the positive test could be seen as 'gross misconduct' and you could be dismissed immediately or suspended while there is an investigation.
