On 4.6.2020, the Berlin-Brandenburg Regional Labor Court ruled that an employee does not have to tolerate time recording by fingerprint. The case reference is 10 Sa 2130/19. The case: The employer in a radiology practice introduced a time recording system with a fingerprint scanner, one of the employees refused to use this time recording system.
The Regional Labor Court ruled in favor of the employee because the system would record biometric data and such recording is only permitted in absolutely exceptional cases in accordance with Art. 9 para. 2 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
