7th Circuit:  Airline Workers’ Biometric Data Claims Must Go To Adjustment Board

Mealey's (June 17, 2019, 2:57 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — Employees of two airlines challenging the collection of their biometric data via systems tracking their work time must take their disputes before an adjustment board pursuant to the Railway Labor Act (RLA), a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled June 13 (Jennifer Miller, et al. v. Southwest Airlines Co., No. 18-3476, David Johnson, et al. v. United Airlines, Inc., et al., No. 19-1785, 7th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 17803)....