Terms Used In Michigan Laws 37.205

  • Employee: means an individual who works for another person for compensation. See Michigan Laws 37.202
  • Employer: means a person who employs 1 or more persons or who accepts applications for employment, including an agent of an employer. See Michigan Laws 37.202
  • Employment agency: means a person regularly undertaking with or without compensation to procure, refer, recruit, or place for an employer or person the opportunity to work for an employer, and includes an agent of that person. See Michigan Laws 37.202
  • Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or other legal entity, this state or an agency of this state, or the federal government or an agency of the federal government. See Michigan Laws 37.202
  • Polygraph examination: means a psychological stress evaluator examination or any other procedure which involves the use of instrumentation or a mechanical device to enable or assist the detection of deception, the verification of truthfulness, or the rendering of a diagnostic opinion regarding either of these; including a lie detector test, psychological stress evaluator examination, or similar test. See Michigan Laws 37.202
   An employer or employment agency shall not share with any other person information which communicates the results or analysis of an employee‘s or applicant’s polygraph examination or the fact that an employee or applicant for employment refused to submit to a polygraph examination.