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Workplaces in the United States must display this poster explaining the Employment Polygraph Protection Act to employees. The Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 (EPPA) is a United States federal law that generally prevents employers from using polygraph (lie detector) tests, either for pre-employment screening or during the course of employment, with certain exemptions.
Maine is also one of three states where it is illegal for almost all businesses to open on Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving, most notably the big department and grocery stores. [21] State law permits alcohol sales between 5 a.m. and 1 a.m. the following day with additional time allowed for the early morning on New Year's Day. [22]
An additional eleven states are considering similar legislation, and many other states have similar provisions written into their contracts with police unions. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Critics say that the LEOBR makes it impossible to discipline or remove bad officers, such as after they have been convicted of felonies in the courts.
Texas refused to celebrate the U.S. Thanksgiving. But Texans refused to go along. November has five Thursdays this year. That’s how it was in 1944, 1945, 1950, 1951 and 1956.
Chicago will struggle to reach the mid-30s on Thanksgiving Day — a temperature more appropriate for late December. Parts of North Dakota will barely reach the teens and will feel more like January.
Thanksgiving, along with 11 other days each year, is an official federal holiday in the U.S., but the designation does little to guarantee time off or extra pay for private sector workers.
The United States v. Scheffer ruling came, as legal writer Joan Biskupic noted in the Washington Post, "at a time when polygraph machines are increasingly being used outside the courtroom" — and inside as well. Prosecutors were using polygraph results "to extract confessions from suspects," Biskupic observed, and defense lawyers were using ...
A Thanksgiving tradition in some households involves two people who make a wish, then pull both sides of the furcula until it snaps. The person with the larger half is said to get their wish ...