5 year pre-employment drug screen

[desertdog71]

Melatonin is "herbal"/"natural"... nitpicking, really.

yeah, that's what the FA's keep telling me. I'll keep with not taking stuff to sleep.

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

I'm a Canadian (legal authorization to work in the U.S.) trying to get hired with a U.S. airline.

In Canada we don't do drug testing. Is an employer able to hire me if I don't have a 5 year history of drug tests?

Should I start getting myself tested to have documentation?

I'm pretty concerned about problems with the background checks, I have nothing to hide but don't have much to show either.
I also don't have a U.S. drivers license, I can go get one but there won't be any history on a new license for a background check. I can get a report from my Canadian license showing no tickets.

Anybody with any insight into the background checks and what problems I might encounter as a foreigner, I'd appreciate the input.

Wow Canadian civil liberties sound pretty rad! You don't have to give up privacy to fly airplanes?

 

[MQAAord]

Now that I think about it, it doesn't make sense. The ad says this,

Must pass a background check and five (5) year pre-employment drug screen.

I'm guessing if you fail there's a record of it somewhere and that would make you ineligible.

Perhaps the writer of the ad got it mixed up and it was supposed to read "Must pass a drug screen and five (5) year background check"? There is no 5 year pre-employment drug screen that I've ever heard of at any airline. Most airlines require you to be able to account for yourself for the past 5-10 years, where have you been working, where have you lived, account for any time you were unemployed for more than a month, give some names and phone numbers of people who know you and can verify your whereabouts for the past 5-10 years.. etc. But no 5 year drug screen. There's usually a drug test at some point, your standard pee in a cup type drug test, but it doesn't (can't) look back for 5 years of drug usage!