As reported by our sister blog, ADR: Advice from the Trenches, the Sixth Circuit determined that an employer's notice of its mandatory arbitration policy — without more to secure the employee's knowing assent to this employment term — is not enough to compel arbitration. While this only applies in the Sixth Circuit (for now), it's an important development in this area of the law.

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