By: Dominic Charles On June 23, 2023, Starbucks Workers United (Union) announced that 3,500 workers would strike in retaliation to Starbucks’ corporate policy ordering stores to remove all LGBTQ+ decorations. The Union’s concern over the needs of its LGBTQ+ members reflects a diversifying union workforce in which two-thirds of workers are women and/or people of…
Category: Domestic (U.S.)
The Future of Mandatory Arbitration Clauses in Employment Contracts
By: Marimar Seda, Senior articles Editor Employment arbitration is a method of resolving issues between an employer and an employee in an out-of-court setting. Arbitration has been around for a long time but was first codified in 1925 with the passage of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). Congress passed the FAA, to establish a foundation…
California Gets Creative: How AB 51’s Future May Shape State Regulation of Arbitration
By: Scarlett Horn; Junior Staffer The United States (“U.S.”) Supreme Court has used cases such as Concepcion and Lamps Plus to establish its preference for enforcing arbitration clauses, including those that waive the right to class actions in consumer and employment contracts. Despite the pro-arbitration trend, California has remained undeterred in its resolve to avoid…
Arbitration in Times of Restrained Social Relations Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The year 2020 will be remembered in history as the year in which humanity faced the COVID-19 pandemic. It seems that it will remain our day-to-day concern for some time with devastating effects on the economies of developed and developing countries all around the world. Another consequence of the pandemic is that many domestic judicial…
The Impact of COVID-19 on Arbitration
COVID-19 has already impacted almost every industry. Many in-person communications are moving online via teleconferencing and videos. The economic markets in nearly every country are being enormously affected, supply chains have been halted, and many employees can no longer go to work to manufacture products. These major changes to the world economy will no doubt…
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