Can you be denied employment due to a failed polygraph test or questionable answers to the questions in NC?

Question

Employment to be a cop also

Answer 1

no, sue the people and get rich and you won't have to work

Answer 2

using lie detector tests, either for pre-employment screening or during the course of employment, with certain exemptions. Employers generally may not require or request any employee or job applicant to take a lie detector test, or discharge, discipline, or discriminate against an employee or job applicant for refusing to take a test or for exercising other rights under the Act. In addition, employers are required to display the EPPA poster in the workplace for their employees.

The Employment Standards Administration's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) within the

Answer 3

Yes, you can. The use of polygraph machines are a common practice in the hiring process and are used to show truthfulness.

Answer 4

It depends on the job.  If you are applying for the CIA, no.

I know you have the right to refuse to submit to a polygraph, but I don't know what rights you have if you refuse that right and submit.

Answer 5

Yes.  But the polygraph is unreliable and inadmissible in court.  So if you are absolutely 100% positively sure you are clean ... you can fight it and probably win.

But truth time here.  Any shading, misrepresentations, omissions, etc. are bad.

Answer 6

You sure can.

If the prospective employer has unanswered questions about you, or does not trust you, they won't hire you. No sense putting you on the staff if you won't be honest with them.

-Stuart

Answer 7

Think of it this way. THEY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT. but yes, they can deny you employment.