CA Court Holds Employment Arbitration Agreement Waiving Class and...
In Iskanian v. CLS Transportation Los Angeles, LLC, (Cal. Ct. App. June 4, 2012), the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District affirmed a decision to compel individual arbitration...
View ArticleCompelling Individual Arbitration Violates National Labor Relations Act? It...
Joining the ever growing list of opinions on the arbitrability of class claims, an NLRB Administrative Law Judge recently ruled that an arbitration agreement that did not expressly bar workers from...
View ArticleIt’s Smooth Sailing for a Shipping Company After Ninth Circuit Arbitration...
Last month, the Ninth Circuit issued a notable opinion addressing the enforceability of arbitration agreements in Poublon v. C.H. Robinson Co., 846 F.3d 1251 (9th Cir. 2017), mandate issued (Feb. 24,...
View ArticleMaryland Says “Me Too” with Arbitration Limits and New Reporting Requirements
On May 15, 2018, Maryland Governor Lawrence J. Hogan signed into law H.B. 1596, the Disclosing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Act of 2018 (the “Act”), expanding employee rights and remedies under...
View ArticleIt’s Never Too Late: NLRB Rules Employers Can Update an Existing Mandatory...
Arbitration agreements are a powerful tool in resolving employment actions. As we noted last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a landmark case that employers can use class and collective action...
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