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We work in a health care facility and employer is switching to biometric time clock. Staff and health care workers are being told we have to do this if we want to get paid.
Employer states clock only collects a few data points (I don't believe this) internet stays it can be as many as 25-30 data points so basically entire fingerprint. I believe this is invasion of privacy and a set up for illegal search and seizure.
Research also states the data can be stored in a national data base and local police can request to have this data. What options do I have if I want to continue working there? Can I request voice recognition or retinal scan instead? I am also concerned about identity theft.
The biometric time company will have my SSN, DOB, Name and now my fingerprint! I have no criminal recordMore. In Massachusetts privacy among private individuals and employers is governed by the Massachusetts Privacy Act. The courts employ a balancing test between the employer's legitimate business interests and the employee's privacy interests. In your case, a health care facility would arguably have a legitimate interest in making sure that information, especially confidential patient information, is only accessible only to its employees who require that information to perform their jobs. Heightened screening, such as fingerprint confirmation, helps further that interest, even if it might intrude on your privacy. So long as your employer does not share the information obtained from your biometric reading with any other entity, you would have a hard time preventing this measure.
Searches and seizures have more to do with government acts, such as police investigations, which have higher levels of protection than do acts by private entities such as employers. If private employer and you have no individual contract of employment or union contract that covers you, you are an employee 'at will' and the employer can probably do this. If that is the case, yes, you can legally decline it, and the employer can legally fire you because as an employee at will you can be fired for any reason as long as the reason is not illegal ( ex: race, disability, etc) or no reason at all. You should check, however, with an attorney in your state to see if there are any state laws that would prohibit this, although I would be surprised if that if case. If there is a union contract, contact the Union. Good luck More. Absent a union contract that requires the employer to negotiate this change in time-reporting practices, it is legal.
It is also very likely the first sign of an industry-wide practice to come, so be very thoughtful before you are moved to resign or allow yourself to be terminated on this basis.My responses to questions on Avvo are never intended as legal advice and must not be relied upon as legal advice. I give legal advice only in the course of an attorney-client relationship. Exchange of information through Avvo's Questions forum does not establish an attorney-client relationship with me. That relationship is established only by individual consultation and execution of a written agreement for legal services.
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