Tag: polygraphs
Posted on Fri Feb 24, 2012 at 08:25:34 PM EST
Tags: polygraphs, Drug Enforcement Administration (all tags)
A group of 8 translators/interpreters in San Diego have sued the Drug Enforcement Administration for administering polygraphs in violation of federal law. The interpreters' employer, Metropolitan, aka Metlang has also been sued.
The DEA contracted with Metlang to provide linguists/translators for its criminal cases. The suing translators worked for Metlang on DEA's wiretaps and criminal cases. They were all fired after either refusing the test or after DEA reported their polygraphs results as “failed,”or "inconclusive" to Metlang.
Under the Employee Polygraph Protection Act, 29 USC §§2001, a private employer is prohibited from requesting, requiring or demanding a polygraph test from an employee.
The polygraphs lasted four or five hours, and one woman was questioned about bestiality: [More...]
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