Manufacturers Revisit Mandatory Arbitration Agreements
Two recent court decisions dealing with mandatory arbitration agreements highlight why some manufacturers may gain by requiring pre-dispute employment arbitration agreements, writes Matthew Miklave for the Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog.
He discusses two federal court rulings favoring individual arbitration over litigation.
In one of the cases, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court and found that a union labor contract which contained a clause requiring the arbitration of all disputes between the union represented employees and the employer prevented an employee from bringing an individual claim in federal court.