Since January 2012, employers nationwide have had to grapple with uncertainty about whether they can include class-action or collective-action waivers in their employment-arbitration agreements. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved that uncertainty—they can. In a 5–4 decision, the Court held that including those waivers is not a violation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) requires courts to enforce those waivers in arbitration agreements according to their terms.
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