Zigner
Senior Member, Non-Attorney
That's ridiculous. There is no law against requiring the information, so it's a lawful requirement, particularly since the OP does drive on company business. If the OP is fully aware of the consequence of willful failure to provide the information and still refused, then UI payments won't be coming the OP's way.I am not sure that I agree with that one. There are lots of perfectly legal reasons to fire someone that do not rule out someone collecting unemployment compensation. Refusing to give out your driver's license and insurance information is not an egregious thing, and an argument can even be made that to refuse to do so is to help protect yourself from identity theft. An employer already has a lot of someone's personal information. Adding driver's license and insurance info on top of that would practically give an identity thief the full package.
As to your statement about identity theft: Having the driver's license or not doesn't matter. The employer has any employee's name, address, social, and identity documents for the I9, which often (but not always) include the driver's license anyway. And how would knowing insurance info increase the chance of identity theft? One last thing to consider is this: The state already requires that the driver's license and insurance be given to total strangers in certain instances, so why would you believe that giving the information to a long-term employer is any worse?