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AUSTRALIE
: un travailleur refusant les empreintes digitales viré de
son job !
Fingerprint-protest
worker fired New Zealand Herald | Nov 8 2004
«David
Barnes has forfeited his job at an Auckland printing works
rather than become a "marked commodity" by surrendering his
fingerprints to his employer. "Where does it all end?" he
said yesterday of his dismissal as a maintenance engineer
for PMP Print in Wiri. "Ultimately we'll be no more than producers
and consumers in an extremely regulated Big Brother society
that I don't wish to be part of."
Mr Barnes, 52, was sacked last month for alleged serious misconduct
for refusing to allow his fingerprints to be scanned into
a machine for identification when clocking on and off. He
said this would have violated his religious and ethical beliefs.
About 30 per cent of the 160 or so staff at the site had been
similarly reluctant to provide their prints, he said.
But
although another man quit, the rest gave in after what he
claimed was merely token resistance by their union, of which
he is not a member. Australian-owned PMP told the Employment
Relations Authority in September it needed the technology
to combat false time claims, but Mr Barnes said he always
arrived well before starting time. Site manager Lee Rakiraki
said Mr Barnes was dismissed for refusing a lawful and reasonable
request.
The
authority endorsed this before the company delivered its final
ultimatum. He refused any other comment. Importer Lauranka
New Zealand says it has supplied about 180 scanners to firms
throughout the country in the past 15 months, including many
supermarkets, but these have an option for simple PIN numbers
rather than prints if anyone is unwilling or unable to supply
them. Mr Barnes, who also refuses to use credit cards, said
he was never offered that option. »
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