Case: Individual Employment Rights/Negligence (S.C. Ct. App.)

A South Carolina circuit court properly denied ISCO Industries, Inc.'s motion to compel arbitration of a former employee’s class action lawsuit against it following a data breach that released employees’ personal identifying information such as social security numbers and addresses, the South Carolina Court of Appeals ruled. Even though ISCO had his personal information only due to his past employment there, the grounds for his negligence claim—a human resources employee disclosing his private personal information to hackers—don’t actually relate to his employment, the court of appeals stated. When he supplied ISCO with his personal information when he was hired, he ...