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17 August 2015

"Are We There Yet?" The Road To Arbitration

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In this season of family road trips and every parent's favorite question from the back seat—"are we there yet?"—California employers on the road to arbitration recently received some good directions from the Supreme Court.
United States Employment and HR

In this season of family road trips and every parent's favorite question from the back seat—"are we there yet?"—California employers on the road to arbitration recently received some good directions from the Supreme Court. As explained here by our very own Pam Vartabedian, the California Supreme Court recently smoothed over some bumps in that road, holding that reasonably balanced arbitration agreements are enforceable even if they look like a "simple, old-fashioned, bad bargain."  With this guidance, more California employers with an arbitration destination in mind may eventually get there yet.

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