( October 3, 2025, 10:49 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A New York federal judge granted Meta Platforms Inc.’s (formerly Facebook Inc.) motion to compel arbitration and to stay the proceedings by in a former employee’s suit asserting claims for violations of New York human rights laws and the U.S. Civil Rights Act for complaining about Meta’s treatment of female employees, finding that the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 (EFAA) “does not preclude enforcement of the arbitration agreement” the former employee signed because the “case does not involve conduct that is alleged to constitute sexual harassment.”...