Mugwump wrote:
Far better (not least for the taxpayer!) to treat the problem with the seriousness is warrants whilst providing an avenue back to practice.
Taxpayers (or employers generally) are not mummies to employees. It is up to individuals to sort out their own lives, not for employers to do so. If a person puts the lives of individuals at risk by indulging their destructive drug related habits then they are no longer fit to work in that field. Until they sort themselves out they should not be allowed near any job where others are put at risk. I think being fired or suspended from a job due to drug or drink related behaviour is a very good example of the employer, including the taxpayer, taking the matter extremely seriously and I for one don't want to see any compromise to that.
Wigan should be embarrassed by themselves and I hope their bid fails.