IL Supreme Court: Employers can use federal law, CBAs to block unionized workers from suing over fingerprint scans – Cook County Record

The Illinois Supreme Court has thrown a rare brake on the ability of workers and trial lawyers to target employers with potentially massive payout demands through class actions brought under Illinois’ stringent biometrics privacy law, as the high court declared employers can use federal labor law to block unionized workers from suing them over required worker fingerprint scans.