{"id":54,"date":"2006-07-03T14:35:33","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T18:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2021-02-11T05:49:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T10:49:00","slug":"antipolygraph-legislation-advances-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/03\/antipolygraph-legislation-advances-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Antipolygraph Legislation Advances in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>A committee of the Israeli parliament, or Knesset, is proceding with legislation that would ban polygraphs from the workplace. Sheera Claire Frankel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel\/Knesset-committee-moves-forward-on-polygraph-ban\">reports<\/a> for the <em>Jerusalem Post:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"lead\">The Knesset Labor, Health and Sports Committee moved forward on a law to ban the use of Knesset polygraph testing in the workplace on Monday. MK Zahava Gal-On (Meretz) said that polygraph constituted a basic violation of human rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The law would ban any workplace from using the test on potential employees during the hiring process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"lead\">And IsraelNationalNews.com <a title=\"Labor Committee Wants to Ban Polygraph as a Pre-Hiring Option\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060827064158\/http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news.php3?id=106500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"lead\">(IsraelNN.com) The Knesset Labor Committee on Monday authorized moving ahead towards banning the use of a polygraph exam in the workplace, referring to potential employees who are asked to undergo the lie-detector test before being hired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lead\">MK (Meretz-Yahad) Zahava Gal-On stated the polygraph represents a gross violation of basic rights, adding that in the coming weeks, the new regulation will be brought for ratification before the appropriate Knesset body.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A committee of the Israeli parliament, or Knesset, is proceding with legislation that would ban polygraphs from the workplace. Sheera Claire Frankel reports for the Jerusalem Post: The Knesset Labor, Health and Sports Committee moved forward on a law to ban the use of Knesset polygraph testing in the workplace on Monday. MK Zahava Gal-On &#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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2613,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/2613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}