A significant number of employers are opting to elect mandatory arbitration of potential disputes with employees as an alternative to state or federal courts. In some circumstances, arbitration can be ...

Under both New York and federal law, a party is entitled to seek an order to compel arbitration if it is “aggrieved” by another party’s failure to arbitrate a dispute despite being bound to do so. But ...

Labor arbitration is the primary mechanism for resolving disputes about CBA interpretation and application. Success in labor arbitration requires attention to both the individual disputes and the ...

The Washington State Court of Appeals, confronting the issue for the first time and taking cues from several federal courts, has ruled that arbitration agreements can be applied retroactively. The ...

A covenant in a job application, by which the prospective employee agrees that all workplace disputes will be settled by arbitration, is enforceable as a matter of law and public policy, the N.J.