The employees, who were not identified, ultimately got passes after the Administration set up a special drug-testing program in early 1994.
The Administration also called today for broadening the existing drug-testing program.
Among businesses with 5,000 or more employees, 59.8 percent had drug-testing programs, the department said.
Finally, the league's drug-testing program is under attack in the courts.
In 1983, only 3 percent of the nation's largest companies had drug-testing programs, he said.
Under the school's drug-testing program, an athlete who tests positive three times for drugs is to be dropped from a team.
The use of that test has been limited in most drug-testing programs by its high price.
It was also viewed as a major improvement over the last drug-testing program.
The Court had never ruled on a drug-testing program in the schools.
A drug-testing program and a staff trained to detect possible drug use has also helped.