Mandatory Employment Arbitration: Keeping It Fair, Keeping It Lawful
Date of Event
11-19-2009
Description
November 19, 2009
Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict and Dispute Resolution
Rush McKnight Labor Law Lecture Case Western Reserve University School of
Speaker: Theodore J. St. Antoine James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law Emeritus University of Michigan Law School
Agreements requiring employees to arbitrate all disputes with their employers, including statutory claims, instead of taking them to court, have become highly controversial. As a condition of getting or keeping a job, employees must waive their right to go before a judge and jury to pursue their cases. Yet in addition to saving the employer high litigation costs and devastating jury awards, so-called mandatory arbitration may give ordinary lower-paid employees the only practical means of enforcing their job rights. Courts are increasingly insisting on due process safeguards in these systems. Practitioners in the employment field should know about the pros and cons of mandatory arbitration agreements, and about the fast-moving legal developments concerning their validity.
Lecture Series
Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict & Dispute Resolution
Subject Headings
mandatory employment arbitration; mandatory employment arbitration and fairness; mandatory employment arbitration and lawfulness; employment arbitration and due process; employment arbitration and employee rights
Location
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Document Type
Video
Recommended Citation
St. Antoine, Theodore J., "Mandatory Employment Arbitration: Keeping It Fair, Keeping It Lawful" (2009). Conferences and Symposia. 312.
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/law_videos_general/312
Comments
Transcript was published in the CWRU Law Review:
"Mandatory Employment Arbitration: Keeping It Fair, Keeping It Lawful" by Theodore J. St. Antoine (case.edu)
Note: video was posted on YouTube on Oct. 21, 2010. Date of the lecture was Nov. 19, 2009.