A Chicago federal judge refused to dismiss much of the class action claims brought against fast food chain White Castle under Illinois' biometrics privacy law.
Federal judge says timeclock vendors can bear the same responsibility as workers' actual employers to collect consent and provide notice before their customers' employees scan fingerprints when punching in and out.
Albertsons says the law illegally exempts 'financial institutions' from numbering among the defendants in 500-plus class action lawsuits filed in just the last 3 years.
Judge says the class action complaint was short on evidence Becton Dickinson actually collected or shared hospital workers' fingerprint scans when they used the medication dispensers.
NovaTime says the court should pull the plug on the class action under the Illinois BIPA law because the class members' claims would be too varied to allow NovaTime to fairly defend itself.
A Chicago federal appeals court has said 252 Facebook employees may be cut from a class action, which alleges Facebook shorted them on overtime pay, saying the employees may have waived their right to sue, because they signed agreements to arbitrate disputes with the company.
A state appeals panel says electrical utility ComEd doesn't violate the rights of those applying for customer service positions by pulling their credit history, because those jobs handle a great deal of sensitive customer information.
Alsip-based food product development company Griffith Foods is facing a class action suit filed by a former machine operator who claims the company illegally collected and stored his biometric data by requiring workers to scan their fingerprints when punching the clock.
A former Farmington Foods packer/line lead at its Forest Park facility claims the company violated state law when it required workers to scan their hand prints to log their work hours.
Forest Park psychiatric care facility Riveredge Hospital has been hit with a class action accusing it of violating Illinois' biometric privacy law in the way it required workers to scan fingerprints to punch in and out of work shifts
A Rosewood Care Center certified nursing assistant is suing the health care facility's owners for violating an Illinois state biometrics privacy law in the way it requires workers to scan fingerprints when punching in and out of work shifts.
One of the leading providers of shared office space has been hit with a class action under an Illinois biometrics privacy law, claiming the company violated the rights of workers in Chicago in using facial recognition to "monitor" those using its workspaces.
More vendors who supply punchclocks and other payroll tracking technology for businesses of all sizes and types, throughout Illinois, have been targeted in class action lawsuits, asserting the vendors should be held liable for potentially millions of violations every day of Illinois’ biometrics privacy law.
The operators of the Grand Victoria Riverboat Casino in Elgin have been hit with a class action lawsuit, accusing them of violating an Illinois biometrics law in requiring workers to scan their fingerprints when punching the clock.
