Arbitration in employment litigation has been on the rise for the past decade. That trend has been driven, labor lawyers say, by an increasing number of courts deciding that arbitration clauses barring employees from starting class actions are enforceable, despite claims by workers that their right to trial has been violated in the process.
Employers use these agreements to force employees to litigate their claims on an individual basis. Many federal appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have ruled in favor of mandatory arbitration. But there is at least one exception: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit’s recent decision in Lewis v. Epic Systems.
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