July 31, 2026
A California state appellate court recently ruled that allegations of sexual orientation harassment can be enough to invoke the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, the Ninth Circuit opined on the law's timing provisions, and congressional Democrats floated a bill to broaden workplace arbitration restrictions. Here, Law360 recaps five legislative and litigation EFAA developments over the past month.
July 29, 2026
A California federal judge said an ex-Tencent worker must arbitrate her claims that the company fired her after she complained that a male colleague sexually harassed her, ruling that the behavior she protested wasn't sufficiently severe or sexual in nature to trigger a law that could have kept her case in court.