Top Court Strikes Blow To Arbitration
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Waffle House has added a degree of uncertainty to the force of binding arbitration agreements between employers and employees in holding down the number of discrimination lawsuits, according to experts in employment law and employment practices liability insurance.
But with the EEOC taking up the cause of employees through legal action in only a small minority of cases, the impact of the decision may not be devastating, they say.
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