May 16, 2014
Former auto repair employees have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether the Fair Labor Standards Act confers a nonwaivable substantive right to collective action and whether the law contains a congressional command barring the enforcement of arbitration agreements or class action waivers.
March 24, 2014
With the Eleventh Circuit becoming the latest federal appeals court to reject arguments that arbitration agreements containing class waivers shouldn't be enforced in the employment context, management-side attorneys said Monday that the courts have given employers reason to feel confident that their individual arbitration policies will hold up.