Arbitration

On December 30, 2019, a federal district court granted a temporary restraining order requested by several business groups, to prevent AB 51, which banned mandatory arbitration agreements in California, from taking effect.

During the U.S. Supreme Court’s most recent term, the Court held that companies can use arbitration agreements to prohibit workers from suing their employers in class action lawsuits. This means that an employer can include a clause in its arbitration agreements which requires the employee to waive the right to bring any claims against the employer as part of a class action lawsuit.

I’ve previously written about the importance of distributing employee handbooks, employment arbitration agreements and confidentiality agreements to your workforce. However, if you have employees who have little English literacy, it is important that you also provide translations of these key documents to your non-English speaking employees.