California Arbitration Restrictions Upheld by Ninth Circuit – For Now. The Ninth Circuit has delivered a wobble-legged victory to employees that may have to be carried out on a stretcher from the U.S. Supreme Court. Under employer attack is Labor Code Section 432.6. ...
The Arbitration Agreement Shackled the Employee Baxter complained to her Company that performance evaluation forms illegally coded for age, race, and gender. She also objected to the Company reneging on an extension of about 15 to 30 days on her FMLA leave. Within 2...
Waving Goodbye to Arbitration Recent federal cases clarify when a defendant employer will lose its contractual right to arbitrate. Judge Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals wrote for a three-judge panel that an employer waived arbitration of a class...
“The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.” Shakespeare, Richard III. The Class Action Arbitration Issue An employment law case for racial discrimination damages against a Manhattan Beach car dealership has become...
Arbitration Cards Pulled From a Stacked Deck The California Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in a case likely to be the ruin of a long standing exception to compelled arbitration: that discrimination and harassment complaints may not be excluded the right of...