My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: South Carolina
I am a highschool math teacher and I take up a part time job most summers for the extra income. This summer, I ended up working at a convenience store. Today, I received a call at home about an incident at the store involving some missing money, and that I would be required to take a polygraph test this coming Thursday.
The money had gone missing from a combination safe inside the manager's office (which no employee is allowed); also, only the manager and assistant manager (to my knowledge) know how to open the safe. The assistant manager is and has been out of town for the past month or so attending to another store. The manager has a history of misplacing things (a month ago I found two thousand dollars just sitting on top of our main safe; I put said money in the main safe after calling her and informing her of it).
I was told the amount missing is less than 300 dollars. I was also on shift the day of the incident.
Anyway, my questions: Do I have the right to refuse this polygraph test without any repercussions? Will taking or not taking this polygraph have any effect on my teaching position? can/will the district be given information on it since they are part of the government?