Taco Bell Worker’s Biometric Data Collection Class Suit Ordered To Arbitration

Mealey's (May 12, 2023, 1:53 PM EDT) -- EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A federal judge in Illinois granted a restaurant service group and its related entities’ motion for arbitration in a putative class complaint by a Taco Bell employee who alleges that workers’ biometric data is collected, used and stored in violation of Illinois law, finding that the employee herself argued that the signatory to the arbitration agreement, a nonparty to the suit, has an agency relationship with the defendants....