{"id":3986,"date":"2003-07-11T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2003-07-11T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3986"},"modified":"2021-03-10T03:23:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T08:23:01","slug":"smithfield-packing-settles-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/11\/smithfield-packing-settles-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Smithfield Packing Settles Lawsuit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>The <em>Virginian-Pilot<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030721024203\/http:\/\/home.hamptonroads.com\/stories\/story.cfm?story=56811&amp;ran=47080\">reports<\/a> that a settlement has been reached in an $18 million Employee Polygraph Protection Act lawsuit. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>NORFOLK &#8212; A lawsuit filed by a former Smithfield Packing Co. saleswoman against the meatpacker has been settled on the eve of trial this week.<\/p><p>The terms were not disclosed.<\/p><p>The former employee, Julie M. Bannister, claimed in the $18 million suit that the company tried to force her to take a lie-detector test after she filed a sexual-harassment complaint. She also claimed she was defamed by a supervisor.<\/p><p>Papers filed in U.S. District Court June 24 say that the case was settled, but no details were provided. The trial was set to open this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This case was the subject of a 10 October 2002 <em>Virginian-Pilot<\/em> article titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/09\/ex-employee-sues-smithfield-over-polygraph\/\">&#8220;Ex-employee sues Smithfield over polygraph.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginian-Pilot reports that a settlement has been reached in an $18 million Employee Polygraph Protection Act lawsuit. Excerpt: NORFOLK &#8212; A lawsuit filed by a former Smithfield Packing Co. saleswoman against the meatpacker has been settled on the eve of trial this week. The terms were not disclosed. The former employee, Julie M. Bannister, &#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":[156,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-3986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-eppa","8":"tag-labor","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986","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=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3988,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions\/3988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}