MINI-SYMPOSIUM THE FUTURE OF WORK, WORKERS, and WORKPLACE DISPUTE RESOLUTION Two prominent arbitrators-scholars kick off this mini-symposium by emphasizing...
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...
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,...
At the last Fall Education Conference (FEC) of the National Academy of Arbitrators (NAA), one of the workshops offered was entitled: Video Hearings: A New...
On September 20, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1423, the “Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act,” or FAIR Act by a vote of 225-186,...
In a case between Uber and a class of Uber drivers, the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals clarified the parameters of the exemption under Section 1 of the...
In Disclosures in Arbitration: Lessons to Learn, Arbitrator Barry Winograd, current president of the NAA, comments on Honeycutt v. JP Morgan Chase, 25 CA 5th...
In 2009, the Supreme Court determined that a union could waive bargaining protected by federal and state law and instead agree to have all statutory disputes...
In Alberta and other Canadian provinces, hospitals are considered to be essential services. Therefore nurses do not have the right to strike. However, they...
