Bend it like Becker– Craig Becker smacks down arbitration laws
What a great parting shot! As if President Obama’s recess appointments to the NLRB weren’t enough, one outgoing member, Craig Becker decided to take on arbitration only laws.
This decision affects a lot of workers: estimates are that 25% of all non-union workers have signed exactly these kinds of individual arbitrate only agreements. The immediate decision involved a case with the big home builder, D. H. Horton, where a required employment agreement had mandated not only that the worker with an issue had to arbitrate but also barred the arbitrator from making a decision which could apply to any other workers or group of workers.
It’s going to be challenged but it was a great move.
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