Employees at a Holiday Inn in downtown Chicago have became the latest to sue their employer claiming that timekeeping systems that use workers' fingerprints to track hours violate Illinois law.The employees filied a class action in state court against hotel owner InterContinental Hotels Group Operating Corp.The suit claims that employees at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza River North are required to scan their fingerprints while clocking in and out, but that the hotel never obtained their permission to collect and store the data.This is the second time a biometric lawsuit had been filed against IHG.Last June, plaintiff Eric Zepeda filed a putative class action lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against IHG and its subsidiary, the Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group, claiming the company, which employs hundreds of workers at numerous hotels and resort properties in Chicago and elsewhere in Illinois, should be made to pay for allegedly violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA.)According to the lawsuit, Zepeda is an Illinois resident who “has worked at one of (IHG's) hotels in the Chicago area.”In his lawsuit, Zepeda and his counsel assert IHG and Kimpton have violated for the last three years the Illinois BIPA law, which governs how people and organizations can obtain and use certain biometric identifiers, including fingerprints, facial scans and more.
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