Opinion ID: 2717155
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Established Practice

Text: NextEra’s second line of purported “forceful evidence” of a mutual intent to exclude access decisions from arbitrator review is that it developed its own “Access and Fitness Program” to monitor and ensure its employees’ compliance. The program was unilaterally established, and it no more forcefully establishes a mutual intent to exclude covered material from arbitration than the fact that NextEra employed its own internal disciplinary procedures establishes a joint intent to exclude disciplinary actions from arbitration. The existence of internal review procedures and an agreement to arbitrate disputes concerning the results of those procedures are not in any way mutually exclusive. Moreover, again, does 12 No. 13-3851 not go to show that discharge decisions founded on access revocations were intentionally excluded from the facially applicable arbitration clause.