Presented with the chance last year to make California the only state to bar arbitration agreements as a condition of employment, Gov. Jerry Brown took more than a month to deliver his answer: No.
The labor-backed bill went too far, Brown wrote in a lengthy veto message. Top courts in the state and the nation have frowned upon legislative efforts to broadly curtail arbitration, he said. Agreements with adequate protections for employers are sanctioned.
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