{"id":3658,"date":"2002-08-12T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2002-08-12T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2021-02-28T11:34:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T16:34:46","slug":"fidelity-cash-men-on-strike-in-durban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/12\/fidelity-cash-men-on-strike-in-durban\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: &#8220;Fidelity Cash Men on Strike in Durban&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Graeme Hosken of the Durban, South Africa <em>Daily News<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itechnology.co.za\/index.php?click_id=13&amp;art_id=ct20020812123614223C000958&amp;set_id=1\">reports<\/a> on a strike over polygraph &#8220;testing.&#8221; This short article is cited here in full: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Scores of Durban&#8217;s automatic teller machines (ATMs) and businesses are expected to run dry on Monday after Fidelity Cash Management Services (FCMS) employees went on strike over the weekend.<\/p><p>The strike &#8211; which began on Saturday and is set to continue throughout the week and possibly into next week &#8211; is expected to affect hundreds of ATMs and businesses in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.<\/p><p>The strike is over a compulsory polygraph test as well as, say workers, the fact that they are being forced to pay for cash boxes that are damaged during robberies.<\/p><p>Strikers are demanding the polygraph tests, which have been conducted for the last eight years, be ended immediately.<\/p><p>Rob Nimmo, operations director for FCMS, said on Saturday strikers demanded that management put a moratorium on the polygraph tests.<\/p><p>&#8220;We obviously refused. The aim of the test, which is conducted in the event of an incident such as a robbery, is to prove the staff&#8217;s innocence and to clear their names. Not to prove their guilt,&#8221; he said.<\/p><p>Nimmo said there was no substance to allegations that crews were being forced to pay for damaged cash boxes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graeme Hosken of the Durban, South Africa Daily News reports on a strike over polygraph &#8220;testing.&#8221; This short article is cited here in full: Scores of Durban&#8217;s automatic teller machines (ATMs) and businesses are expected to run dry on Monday after Fidelity Cash Management Services (FCMS) employees went on strike over the weekend. The strike &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32,70,286],"class_list":{"0":"post-3658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-labor","8":"tag-polygraph-screening","9":"tag-south-africa","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3660,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions\/3660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}