Governor Brown vetoed AB 465. This bill would have disregarded federal law and banned mandatory agreements to arbitrate employment claims. In a veto message, he noted the lack
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The Pros and Cons of Mandatory Workplace Arbitration
By Jeffrey D. Polsky on
Should your company have mandatory arbitration agreements with its employees? Having tried and arbitrated dozens of cases on behalf of employers, here are what I see as the pros and…
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Ten Commandments for Avoiding Employment Lawsuits in California
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From the employer’s perspective, the only way to truly “win” an employment case is to avoid it in the first place. We litigators love the thrill of gettting a…
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Further Attacks On Employment Arbitrations
By Jeffrey D. Polsky on
Senator Al Franken, among others, has reintroduced legislation to eliminate mandatory arbitration in employment, civil rights, and consumer cases. The so-called Arbitration Fairness Act of 2011 (S. 987…
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Can’t You Be For Arbitration and Against Rape?
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I’ve been sitting on this one for a while. Every time I tried to write about it, it came across as either too indignant or too glib and I gave…
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More judicial hostility to mandatory employment arbitrations
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The California Supreme Court issued a decision yesterday in Pearson Dental Supplies, Inc. v. Superior Court (pdf) that begins:
We have emphasized in our case law the limited nature of
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