Robert W. Perks v. The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company

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• finding a public policy embodied in Pennsylvania’s anti-polygraph statute making the employer’s discharge of the employee because of the latter’s refusal to submit to a polygraph exam, actionable in tort
• at will employee fired for refusing to take a polygraph test stated cause of action for wrongful discharge under Pennsylvania law
• discharge for refusal to take polygraph test, where statute forbade employers from requiring same
• employee who made unauthorized long distance telephone calls had no cause of action
• employee fired for refusal to take polygraph test has cause of action
• discharge of at will employee for refusing to take a polygraph test

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