EAST ST. LOUIS – Symphony nursing homes in Illinois are going out of business, according to lawyers pursuing claims that Symphony’s fingerprint scanning violated the biometric privacy of employees.
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EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel dismissed nine union members from a privacy invasion action against nursing homes on Dec. 14, leaving two plaintiffs to carry on.
She ruled that union members must resolve claims against homes in the Symphony Acute Care Network through collective bargaining agreements.
District courts of the Seventh Circuit “have consistently found that Biometric Information Privacy Act claims from unionized employees are preempted by federal law,” she wrote.
She also denied a motion to remand the action to St. Clair County.
John Driscoll filed it there in 2017, for Saroya Roberson.
Roberson claimed Sycamore Village, a Symphony network home in Swansea, failed to protect privacy of fingerprints she registered on its time clock.