Be Careful What You Wish For: DoorDash Must Honor the Arbitration Agreements it Required For All of its Couriers and Pay Close to $12 Million in Filing Fees

Staff2February 18, 2020

Many non-unionized companies now require employees and independent contractors to agree to arbitrate all their claims against the company instead of going to...

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Supreme Court of Canada Addresses Standard of Review

Staff2February 12, 2020

The Supreme Court of Canada has issued a comprehensive decision that addresses the standard of review in connection with decisions of administrative tribunals....

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NLRB Makes it Easier to Defer to Arbitration Awards

Staff2February 7, 2020

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has a policy of deferring to arbitrators’ awards that deal with factual scenarios that may also constitute unfair...

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AAUP Submits Comments to NLRB

Staff2February 6, 2020

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) announced that it has submitted comments to the National Labor Relations Board (Board) opposing a rule...

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Union Seeks Contempt of Court Order Against Employer

Staff2January 15, 2020

The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (Teamsters) has applied to the Federal Court of Canada for an Order against Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) for contempt of...

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Law Students Chipping Away at Mandatory Pre-Dispute Arbitration Agreements

Staff2December 11, 2019

A group of law students has formed the "People's Parity Project" which has a number of goals, but one of them is ending mandatory pre-dispute arbitration...

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Arbitrators Can Find That a Contract Implicitly Permits Class Arbitrations

Staff2December 11, 2019

In a decision issued on November 18, 2019, the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals (based in New York) confirmed that under the right circumstances,...

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NLRB to Send More “Unilateral Change” Disputes to Arbitration

Staff2November 12, 2019

An NLRB policy released in late October will send more “unilateral change” disputes to arbitration. Generally, employers may not make unilateral changes to...

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Outsourcing Justice on Recent 9th Circuit Arbitration Decision

Staff2October 31, 2019

Over at Outsourcing Justice (a blog about arbitration), Professor Imre Szalai summarizes a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit...

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Recent Labor Law Developments

Staff2October 4, 2019

The National Labor Relations Board, in MV Transportation, Inc., Case 28-CA-173726 (September 10, 2019), has expanded the ability of employers to make...

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