Meridian Senior Living LLC will pay more than $1.4 million to settle a class action alleging it collected the biometric identifiers of employees at its Illinois facilities without their knowledge or consent in violation of the state’s biometric-privacy law, under a deal given final approval in federal court.
The settlement provides a gross award of nearly $850 per member for a class of 1,644 current and former employees of the senior-living-home chain, according to the plaintiffs’ motion for final approval of the deal filed in the US District Court for the Central District of Illinois.
Each class member is entitled ...
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