Companies 'can sack workers for refusing to use fingerprint scanners'

guest · Dec 1, 2018

Companies 'can sack workers for refusing to use fingerprint scanners'
November 27, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...kers-for-refusing-to-use-fingerprint-scanners

The ruling, which will be appealed, was made in the case of Jeremy Lee, a Queensland sawmill worker who refused to comply with a new fingerprint scanning policy introduced at his work in Imbil, north of the Sunshine Coast, late last year.

The company, Superior Woods, had no privacy policy covering workers and failed to comply with a requirement to properly notify individuals about how and why their data was being collected and used. The biometric data was stored on servers located off-site, in space leased from a third party.

But the unfair dismissal claim failed.
Lee told Guardian Australia he planned to appeal. He said the ruling implied that Australians only owned their biometric data until an employer demanded it, at which point they could be sacked if they refused to consent.
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Ruling (PDF): https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/pdf/2018fwc4762.pdf

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