Walgreens, Shaw’s Supermarkets Lawsuits Claim Job Applicants Illegally Deprived of Notice of Lie Detector Test Rights

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Two proposed class action lawsuits respectively allege Walgreens and grocery store chain Shaw’s Supermarkets have failed to provide job applicants with requisite notice of their rights concerning lie detector tests in employment settings.

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The eight-page lawsuits were filed by Massachusetts residents who claim the retailers violated a state law that stipulates that all job applications must clearly notify applicants that employers are prohibited from requiring or administering a lie detector test as a condition of employment.

One plaintiff says that when she applied to work at a Walgreens location in October 2024, her application lacked any written notice of her rights in connection with lie detector tests, in violation of Massachusetts law.

The same was apparently true for the other plaintiff, who contends that the requisite notice was similarly absent from his Shaw’s employment application in February 2024.

Indeed, according to the lawsuits against Walgreens and Shaw’s—a chain owned by co-defendant Albertsons Companies—none of the retailers’ publicly available job applications that were surveyed by the plaintiffs’ counsel complied with Massachusetts law.

The suits look to represent anyone who has applied for a Massachusetts-based position of employment with Walgreens or Shaw’s.

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