Southwest Workers Say Union Agreement Did Not Preempt Illinois Biometric Law

Workers told the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that because their collective bargaining agreement did not mention Southwest’s fingerprint-based timekeeping system, their claims did not have to proceed in union arbitration.

By Daniel Wiessner

Source Reuters

March 11, 2019
Eric Salard [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]
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A group of unionized Southwest Airlines Co baggage handlers have urged a federal appeals court to rule that federal labor law did not preempt their claims that the airline violated a unique Illinois biometric law when it collected their fingerprints.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/employment-biometric/southwest-workers-say-union-agreement-did-not-preempt-illinois-biometric-law-idUSL1N20V03P

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