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Patsy T. Mink: “A question by one of our colleagues, who unfortunately could not be here because there is another pressing meeting…”

On the recordJune 9, 1999
A question by one of our colleagues, who unfortunately could not be here because there is another pressing meeting, raises the point of many of these employees are not fully conversant in English. They are limited English speakers. Many of them are highly skilled, very, very important technical scientists in this field. Is the polygraph examination going to be given in different languages so that the failure of communication in English is not going to tag this individual as being a risk because they could not relate to the types of questions that are coming at them in the English language nor could they respond in English in an adequate way?
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Patsy T. Mink
Hawaii
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Addressing concerns about polygraph examinations for non-English speaking employees.

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