Supreme Court upholds employers' right to require arbitration to settle workplace disputes

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico


By JOSH GERSTEIN 05/21/2018 10:20 AM EDT

A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday upheld the right of employers to require employees to use private arbitration to resolve workplace disputes.

The 5-4 decision, split along the usual ideological lines, upheld the right of employers to use mandatory arbitration clauses to block the filing of class-action lawsuits over workplace issues such as unpaid overtime. The majority rejected arguments that forcing those cases into private, individual arbitration violated federal labor law.

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[Hugin]

1. We all knew that was coming.

Walmart needs it's pound of flesh.

[olegramps]

9. Just thunk des lifer apt might not be jood.

[dalton99a]

2. It was a done deal with Gorsuch

[riversedge]

3. agree. McConnell is doing a tap dance:-(

[stuffmatters]

14. Yep, Gorsuch famously ruled an employee was obligated to freeze to death for his employer

To save the boss' truck.

Thank goodness there was a majority of judges in that Co case with common sense & human heart to rule for the employee.

Gorsuch is a sociopath who sees workers as nothing more than slaves, with not even the right to life. He vehemently fetishizes the right to life for fetuses over mothers and staunchly opposes any humane right to die protections for the terminally ill. Yet employees...
i his perfect world they have no rights,not even the right to live.

Gorsuch is a monster. Anne Gorsuch was his mother. He's been brainwashed since birth. This decision was a no brainer for him as well as a fulfillment of his own employer's (Koch Bros) agenda. Gorsuch is just warming up.

[turbinetree]

4. This is just fucked up.........................get out and vote............it's about the court(s)

So ..................if you want to get a job, you have to sign that you will accept arbitration, so in essence you are being blackmailed, by this ruling from this right wing POS court if you want to work........................

Can't wait on there Janus ruling................and that scab who brought it forward with help from ALEC , Koch's. American for Prosperity and
National Right to work for less assholes.....................

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/this-supreme-court-case-could-deliver-a-big-blow-to-public-service-unions/

[not fooled]

5. Anyone who works for a living

and votes puke is an idiot.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Supreme Court Says Employers Can Bar Worker Class-Action Lawsuits

BREAKING: Supreme Court says employers can enforce arbitration agreements that bar class actions suits. Gorsuch writes 5-4 opinion.

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Supreme Court Says Employers Can Bar Worker Class-Action Lawsuits

By Greg Stohr

Updated on
• Justices vote 5-4 along ideological lines to back employers
• Ruling could affect rights of tens of millions of workers

A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers can force workers to use individual arbitration instead of class-action lawsuits to press legal claims. The decision potentially limits the rights of tens of millions of employees.

The justices, voting 5-4 along ideological lines, said for the first time Monday that employers can enforce arbitration agreements signed by workers, even if those accords bar group claims. The majority rejected contentions that federal labor law guarantees workers the right to join forces in pressing claims.

The ruling builds on previous Supreme Court decisions that let companies channel disputes with consumers and other businesses into arbitration. The latest decision applies directly to workers’ wage-and-hour claims, and its reasoning might let employers avoid class action job-discrimination suits as well.
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The cases are Epic Systems v. Lewis, 16-285; Ernst & Young v. Morris, 16-300; and NLRB v. Murphy Oil USA, 16-307.

Gorsuch writes for the court's conservatives, Ginsburg dissents joined by liberals https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-285_q8l1.pdf …

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[GeorgeGist]

7. Deplorable...

misreading of the Constitution.

[grumpyduck]

8. Of course, the five who voted for arbitration

don't have to worry about their own employer, so what do they care how they screw everyone else.

The "me" generation rears its ugly head.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Organizational psychology

You get the loyalty and the behavior you pay for. Workers, like the public, will find any way around rules and regulations that makes sense to them. It may make their day less stressful, more productive, more profitable for them, easier, or fit some other goal that the company can't fathom. This ruling drives a further nail in the coffin of worker loyalty.

[joshcryer]

11. Every wage job will now have an NDA. Fantastic.

I had this as an idea in a novel I was writing but put down because I am a terrible writer.

[colsohlibgal]

12. Bit By Bit

The right keeps chipping away at any protection for workers.

[3Hotdogs]

13. The only way to fight that is for each aggrieved employee to file a claim. Let the employer pay to

defend multiple lawsuits.

[meow2u3]

15. SCOTUS just gave employers a license to discriminate

They also gave them a license to treat workers like shit, forcing them into anti-worker arbitration to keep the boot on their necks.