Employment arbitration agreements provide employers and employees with a fair and efficient way to resolve disputes outside of court litigation. The legal requirements for and best practices ...
A view of the John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals Building, location of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in New Orleans, La. This story was originally published on HR Dive. To receive daily ...
A California woman came a step closer to litigating her discrimination and wrongful discharge claims against a former employer after the state’s top court said it was unclear whether the employer ...
Arizona employer cannot exclude settlement communications from former employee’s retaliation complaint - In Flores v. Rafi Law Group PLLC, the plaintiff accused her law firm employer of retaliating ...
A federal magistrate judge has ordered a former Starbucks employee’s disability discrimination lawsuit into private arbitration, finding that ...
Arbitration is a private alternative to court that provides the parties with a legally binding alternative dispute resolution process.
Many employers enter into predispute arbitration agreements with their employees in the hope of reducing overall employment litigation expenses and potential liability. While these goals are often ...
The agreement requires employees to use arbitration instead of lawsuits to settle disputes. Arizona law allows a company to impose an arbitration agreement on its employees. Five former employees have ...
An employer was unable to enforce employee arbitration agreements because a company representative never signed them, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Dec. 17 (Mertens, et al. v. Benelux ...