In a ruling allowing a class action against Waffle House Inc. to move forward, a judge has criticized the restaurant chain’s practice of having its general counsel pre-sign employment agreements.
In a July 26 ruling, U.S. District Judge Roy Dalton Jr. in Orlando refused to dismiss a putative class action alleging Waffle House violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Waffle House’s lawyers had moved to compel arbitration of the dispute, pointing out that the named plaintiff had agreed to arbitrate any employment disputes with the company. But the judge swiftly rejected that argument, finding that the arbitration agreement was invalid because it had been pre-signed by Waffle House’s GC.
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