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Polygraph Testing: Employee and Employer Rights (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Aug. 28, 1987
Report Number IB87126
Authors Gail McCallion, Economics Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

In the 1980s increasing numbers of employers are using polygraph tests to screen job applicants and employees for illegal drug use and to avert potential and deter actual employee theft. Employees, unions and civil libertarians feel these tests are not accurate measures of truth and falsehood, and violate employees' right to privacy. The issue for Congress is whether to prohibit the use of polygraphs by employers, and if so, whether the prohibition should extend only to private employers, or should include public employers as well, or whether to permit polygraph usage under federal standards and regulations.