Angel is the manager at a regional coal plant in West Virginia. There have been endless complaints about workers stealing lunches from the community fridge. Angel sets up security cameras in the lunchroom, but not knowing if the lunches being taken are owned by the respective employee or not, Angel decidesto set up a lie detector test and tells the employees to either take the test or risk being fired. Is Angel permitted to require employees to take the test? Yes, as an employer, Angel is allowed to require the employees to sit for any test the company deems appropriate. Yes, Angel is in the middle of an “ongoing investigation” into crimes and can require employees to sit for the test. No, Angel is prohibited from testing employees on a lie detector by the First Amendment. No, Angel is prohibited from testing employees by the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988.
