Compelling Employees to Arbitration Suddenly Has Less of an Upside
On July 17, the California Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in Adolph v. Uber Techs Inc., as to whether employees still have standing to sue for "non-individual" PAGA claims when they have been compelled to arbitrate their individual Labor Code claims. The Court in a 7-0 vote answered yes: aggrieved employees still have standing — foreclosing employers' ability to extinguish PAGA claims by compelling underlaying Labor Code claims to individual arbitration.
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