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IMPORTANT Illinois Worker Law - You Probably Didn't Know About!

26 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video (by Daniel Rosen) explaining that under Illinois law (the Biometric Information Privacy Act), employers who collect employee fingerprints for timekeeping without obtaining informed consent may violate the statute. The speaker notes plaintiffs are pursuing class actions and discusses the possibility of statutory damages of $1,000 per fingerprint-scan event, multiplied by scans per day and days worked.

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A big Illinois law that a lot of people didn't know that they could sue for is whenever they get a job, if their employer takes their fingerprint to clock in and out of work, and they never got their informed consent, that's a violation of the Biometric Information Privacy Act. And now there's some talk over whether they can actually sue for every time it's $1,000, they scan their fingerprint. So that could be like four or five times a day, times however many days that you've been on the job, times $1,000. So these things are getting sued in class action in Illinois for the past few years.