Envoy Air Argues Bargaining Agreements Bar Biometric Claims

A proposed biometric privacy class action against an American Airlines Group Inc. subsidiary should be dismissed because the ex-workers’ collective bargaining agreements bar those claims, the company is arguing in Illinois federal court.

The collective bargaining agreements apply retroactively to November 2015, meaning the Biometric Information Privacy Act claims are barred, Envoy Air Inc. argued in a motion to dismiss filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Attorneys representing plaintiffs Maysoun Abudayyeh and Chelsea Burrow didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Abudayyeh sued Envoy in state court in December, accusing her former ...