Stephan Zouras, Llp
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White Castle to pay $9.5M to settle contentious worker fingerprint scans case
A long court fight over the case had resulted in a landmark Illinois Supreme Court decision, which placed Illinois businesses at risk of "annihilative" payouts, leading lawmakers to at last move to reform the law to potentially avert further economic harm. -
Big money biometrics privacy class actions enriching handful of lawyers at expense of IL economy, new report claims
A report from the Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse of Illinois says seven plaintiffs' class action firms account for nearly 70% of all class actions active in Chicago area courts under the stringent Biometric Information Privacy Act, commonly known as BIPA -
HR tech vendor Paylocity hit with IL biometrics class action over worker fingerprint scans
Human Resources service firm Paylocity has become one of the latest vendors of timeclock tech to be targeted by a class action under Illinois' biometrics privacy law. -
Appeals panel: Employers don't owe OT for 'incidental' work if workers don't record the hours
A federal appeals court tossed out a jury verdict that had ordered ATM maker NCR to pay a field tech more than $250,000 for allegedly unpaid OT performed off the clock -
Class action accuses Panduit of improperly forcing workers to scan fingerprints to track work hours
A class action lawsuit accuses the Panduit Corporation of violating Illinois privacy laws by using a fingerprint reader system to track employee hours.