Wage and Hour, Motion to Compel, Contract Terms

Arbitration Agreement Enforceable By Non-Signatory Alleged Joint-Employers

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/11/2024

Employees who sign an arbitration agreement with one company cannot avoid arbitration with related defendant-companies by arguing they were not parties to the agreement. The California Court of Appeal held that claims against...more

Beyond the Contract: Non-Signatories to an Arbitration Agreement Can Compel Arbitration

Lewitt Hackman on 12/11/2024

Departing from the ruling in Soltero v. Precise Distribution earlier this year, the California Court of Appeal in the Second District in Gonzalez v. Nowhere Beverly Hills LLC, created a split of authority regarding an alleged...more

Savings Clause Results in Oregon Supreme Court Affirming Enforceability of Arbitration Provision

Littler on 7/15/2022

On July 8, 2022, in Gist v. ZoAn Management, Inc., the Oregon Supreme Court affirmed the decisions of the trial court and court of appeals granting the defendants’ motion to compel arbitration. The court concluded that...more

This Week at the Ninth: Independent or Intertwined?

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals on 6/1/2021

This week, the Ninth Circuit simultaneously issued two decisions addressing the circumstances in which equitable estoppel can require a plaintiff to arbitrate a claim absent an arbitration agreement with the defendant. In the...more

Court to Consider Whether California Ride Share Drivers Who Make Airport Runs Are Exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act

Epstein Becker & Green on 12/4/2019

On November 26, 2019, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard B. Ulmer ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) might not apply to Uber drivers who are engaged in interstate commerce while driving passengers to or...more

“No More Arbitration for You!” – Part 2

Lewitt Hackman on 10/21/2019

In our previous blog we wrote about California’s Assembly Bill 51, which largely impacts arbitration agreements by prohibiting employers from requiring employees or applicants for employment to agree to arbitrate claims for...more

California Supreme Court Casts Doubt on Arbitration Agreements that Require Civil Litigation Procedures for Wage Claims

Payne & Fears on 9/10/2019

On August 29, 2019, the California Supreme Court held in OTO, L.L.C. v. Kho, S244630, that a mandatory arbitration agreement may be unenforceable against employee wage claims if it requires the employee to forego the “Berman”...more

Ninth Circuit Finds That Party Was A Third-Party Beneficiary Of Arbitration Agreement, And Affirms Order Compelling Arbitration Of...

Carlton Fields on 12/27/2018

Three delivery drivers sued a transportation broker for failure to pay overtime and minimum wages, failure to provide rest and meal breaks, failure to timely pay wages upon termination, and willful refusal to pay wages on...more

Wage and Hour › Motion to Compel › Contract Terms

Arbitration Agreement Enforceable By Non-Signatory Alleged Joint-Employers

Beyond the Contract: Non-Signatories to an Arbitration Agreement Can Compel Arbitration

Savings Clause Results in Oregon Supreme Court Affirming Enforceability of Arbitration Provision

This Week at the Ninth: Independent or Intertwined?

Court to Consider Whether California Ride Share Drivers Who Make Airport Runs Are Exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act

“No More Arbitration for You!” – Part 2

California Supreme Court Casts Doubt on Arbitration Agreements that Require Civil Litigation Procedures for Wage Claims

Ninth Circuit Finds That Party Was A Third-Party Beneficiary Of Arbitration Agreement, And Affirms Order Compelling Arbitration Of...

Kentucky Supreme Court Rejects Conditioning Employment on Agreement to Arbitrate

Key California Employment Law Cases: March 2017

CBAs Must Specifically State Intent to Arbitrate Statutory Rights

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