Arbitration Fairness Act

Employers: Be Careful What You Wish For – Your Motion to Compel Arbitration Can Lead to Expensive, Class-Wide Arbitration

Leave a Comment / accountability, arbitration, Arbitration Fairness Act, Class Action, Compensation, Conservative Policy, Employment, Equal Opportunity, equal pay / By max cyril

In the wake of ATT Mobility v. Concepcion and Stolt-Nielsen v. AnimalFeeds,* many employers have sought to enact new arbitration agreements or to enforce arbitration provisions in older agreements to eliminate their employees’ ability to come together when seeking to vindicate their rights to enforce statutory protections for workers. Employers should be careful what they wish for, in …

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Caught In a Fixed Game: The Struggle for Consumer and Employee Rights in the Forced Arbitration Process

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Recently, forced arbitration clauses have spread into a wide variety of contracts that regular citizens ordinarily enter into. These include both consumer contracts, such as those for cellular phone service plans, and employment contracts signed at the start of a new job. Obstacles to fair and impartial dispute resolution are manifold in this coerced dispute …

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Will the Supreme Court Issue a Wildly Activist Decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion?

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The consumer and civil rights communities are closely watching AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, a case that will be argued in the Supreme Court this November. Depending on how broadly the Court reads the question presented in Concepcion, the case could decide the fate of consumer and employee class actions for years to come. The Corporate …

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KBR is Asking for It

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To paraphrase comedian Henny Youngman’s famous one-liner, take my KBR, please. After all the bad press U.S. engineering and construction company KBR has received over the years for its operations in Iraq , both during its time as a Halliburton subsidiary and since, one might think it had learned a thing or two about how …

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Meet the Senators Who Voted Against the Franken Amendment

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I think that all homo sapiens can understand how the mere thought of an organization that receives government money through contract mechanisms being tangentially involved in setting up a fake tax shelter for a fake pimp and his fake prostitution ring of fake prostitutes can justifiably lead to lawmakers going absolutely cross-eyed with white-hot, impotent …

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10 Steps to Ending Forced Arbitration

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If you look close enough at an employment or credit card contract you’ll typically see some fine print sized like this that says something to the effect of, “By signing this contract both parties agree to submit to binding arbitration. Both parties acknowledge that if there is one or more disputed items that remain unresolved …

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Arbitration Fairness Act

Employers: Be Careful What You Wish For – Your Motion to Compel Arbitration Can Lead to Expensive, Class-Wide Arbitration

Caught In a Fixed Game: The Struggle for Consumer and Employee Rights in the Forced Arbitration Process

Will the Supreme Court Issue a Wildly Activist Decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion?

KBR is Asking for It

Meet the Senators Who Voted Against the Franken Amendment

10 Steps to Ending Forced Arbitration

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