The Supreme Court issued a decision today on NLRB vs Murphy Oil USA that establishes arbitration agreements which provide for individualized proceedings as lawful and enforceable and allows employers to maintain such class-action waiver agreements.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has 55 pending cases regarding employers who maintain or enforce individual arbitration agreements or policies containing class- and collective-action waivers. The NLRB will be resolving those cases now that the Supreme Court’s decision has been made. Additionally, many similar cases are pending before the federal courts of appeals.
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