Setback for workers: What fallout as Supreme Court OKs forced arbitration?
May 21, 2018
3 minutes
In the wake of a #MeToo movement that is pushing corporations to clean up their act, the US Supreme Court threw companies a lifeline.
It allowed them to continue including forced-arbitration clauses in their employment contracts. Monday’s ruling means that companies can keep workers from launching class-action lawsuits – or even going to arbitration as a group – over issues from wages and overtime pay to potentially discrimination and sexual harassment.
Worker-advocacy groups, which say the ruling
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