Four Seasons Hotel Workers Keep Class Biometrics Suit in Court (3)

The Four Seasons Hotel Ltd. can’t force arbitration of a class action alleging the fingerprint scanning system it uses to track employee hours violates Illinois’ biometric privacy law, a state appeals court ruled.

The luxury hotel owner argued that the allegations made by a bell attendant and a housekeeper at its Chicago location really describe wage-and-hour violations that fall under its employee arbitration agreement. Because Tony Liu and Cathy Li both signed that agreement, their claims on behalf of themselves and a class of similarly situated workers under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act belong in arbitration, not court, Four ...