Source: https://wyattemployment.com/tag/federal-arbitration-act/
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 06:36:04+00:00

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Significantly, the cases relied upon by the Court in this commercial arbitration case were prior labor and employment law decisions.
Categories: Labor Law | Tags: Class Action, Eastern Associated Coal, Employment Law, Federal Arbitration Act, judicial review, Kagan, Labor Law, Mine Workers, Misco, Oxford Health Plans, Steelworkers v. Enterprise, Supreme Court, Sutter | Permalink.
The U.S. Supreme Court has just issued a decision re-affirming the supremacy of the Federal Arbitration Act over state laws purporting to limit arbitration. In Nitro-Lift Technologies v. Eddie Lee Howard, et al., 568 U.S. ____ (2012), the court reversed the Oklahoma Supreme Court that had taken the position that a state law limiting the enforcement of non-competition agreements entered into by employers and their employees controlled as a matter of state law. The Oklahoma court had refused to allow the matter to be heard by an arbitrator as called for in the contract between Nitro-Lift and two of its employees who left to go to work for a competitor. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a Per Curiam opinion, vacated the Oklahoma Supreme Court decision and remanded the case to the state court with instructions to allow the issue of whether the non-competition agreement had been violated by the former employees to be heard by an arbitrator.
Categories: Employment Law | Tags: Eddie Lee Howard, Federal Arbitration Act, Nitro-Lift Technologies, non-competition agreement, Oklahoma Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court | Permalink.
Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp.: Testing whether oral complaints to a supervisor are protected under the anti-retaliation provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Thompson v. Northern American Stainless L.P.: Whether Title VII creates a cause of action for third party retaliation for persons who did not themselves engage in protected activity.
Staub v. Proctor Hospital: Can employer be held liable based on the unlawful intent of officials who caused or influenced but did not make the ultimate employment decision (cat’s paw theory)?
Chamber of Commerce of the United States v. Whiting: Preemption of Arizona statute that imposes sanctions on employers who hire unauthorized aliens.
(Cert. Pending) Wal-Mart Stores v. Dukes: Whether certification of a huge class action was proper.
Categories: Employment Law | Tags: Class Action, Employment Law, Federal Arbitration Act, Title VII, U.S. Supreme Court | Permalink.
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 21, 2010, in a 5 to 4 decision in Rent-A-Center, West, Inc. v. Antonio Jackson, 561 U.S. ____ (2010), expanded the reach of clauses in arbitration agreements that provide for the arbitrator to resolve questions of arbitrability when the challenge is to the enforceability of the entire agreement.
Categories: Employment Law | Tags: 9 USC 1, Antonio Jackson, Arbitrability, Arbitration, Employment Law, Federal Arbitration Act, Rent-A-Center, Supreme Court | Permalink.

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