Source: Personnel Today Issue: May 12 2008 Date: 12/05/2008 Publisher: RBI

Lie detectors to be used to detect genuine sickness absence

AUTHOR: Greg Pitcher


Lie detectors could soon be used to deter workers from 'pulling sickies', after the government hailed trials of the technology a success.

Employer groups welcomed the idea of using the Voice Risk Analysis (VRA) system to tell when staff are lying when they call in to say they are too ill to work.

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