The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) has ruled that an employer, Samsung Electronics, violated Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) by requiring workers to waive their right to engage in collective action over employment-related claims in both arbitral or judicial forums as a condition of employment.

Catherine A. Rogers, Professor of Law, Paul and Marjorie Price Faculty Scholar, and Professor of Ethics, Regulation & The Rule of Law at Penn State Law and Director of the Institute for Ethics, Regulation & The Rule of Law at Queen Mary University of London, has published “International Arbitration, Judicial Education, and Legal Elites,” Journal of Dispute Resolution, Vol. 2015, No. 71, 2015; Penn State Law Research Paper No. 19-2015.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that an arbitration agreement included in an employment contract was unenforceable because the “savings clause” failed to expressly require that advance notice regarding any amendments or termination of the arbitral agreement be provided to workers.

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