UPDATE: California’s AB 51 and Mandatory Arbitration Agreements

By Rabbie Mojaddidi | Published September 29, 2021 | Posted in Contracts, Employment Issues, Employment Law | Tagged Tags: AB 51, arbitration agreements, California Assembly Bill 51, California Labor Code, Fair Employment Housing Act, Federal Arbitration Act | Comments Off on UPDATE: California’s AB 51 and Mandatory Arbitration Agreements

California Assembly Bill 51 Signed into law by Governor Newsom on October 10, 2019, California Assembly Bill 51 (“AB 51”) subjects employers to criminal misdemeanor charges, as well as civil sanctions, for mandating arbitration agreements of certain claims in employment contracts. Under AB 51, which added Section 432.6 to the California Labor Code, employees and job applicants cannot Read More

Whether Continued Employment is Acceptance of an Arbitration Agreement?

By leslieburkhammer | Published May 23, 2019 | Posted in Employee Rights | Tagged Tags: arbitration agreements, California Labor Code, continued employment | Comments Off on Whether Continued Employment is Acceptance of an Arbitration Agreement?

When a California employer changes its policies to include mandatory arbitration, does an employee’s continued employment after notification that an agreement to arbitration is a condition of continued employment, maintain that the employee has impliedly consented to the arbitration agreement? In Diaz v. Sohnen Enterprises, this exact question arose. There, all employees of Sohnen Enterprises Read More

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