Employee Arbitration Agreements In NJ Face New Hurdles

By Benjamin Teris (December 12, 2018, 1:35 PM EST) -- Arbitration agreements between employers and employees have been a hot topic over the past year. The #MeToo movement led to increased scrutiny of agreements requiring arbitration of sexual harassment claims. Silicon Valley employers, including Facebook, recently grabbed headlines when they yielded to employee pressure to remove arbitration agreements as a condition of employment. Despite the apparent growing negative sentiment toward arbitration agreements, employers scored a legal victory in Epic Systems v. Lewis,[1] when the U.S. Supreme Court held that arbitration agreements can preclude employees from resolving disputes with their employers as a collective or class and instead require them to individually arbitrate their disputes....

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