Following on the heels first of the U.S. Supreme Court’s January 13, 2017 announcement that it granted certiorari in NLRB v. Murphy Oil USA, along with Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis (7th Circuit) and Ernst & Young, et al. v. Morris (9th Cir.), and then of President Trump’s January 26, 2017 appointment of Philip
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Federal Judge Disregards NLRB’s Murphy Oil Holding and Dismisses Employees’ Wage/Hour Claims
By Kat Paterno on
Posted in NLRB Developments
Last week we reported that the NLRB continues its assault on arbitration agreements in spite of judicial rejection of its holdings. Days after our post, another federal judge disregarded the NLRB’s holdings and actually dismissed employees’ wage and hour claims because the employees failed to follow the court’s order compelling the employees to arbitration.
Specifically,…
Is No Class Action Waiver Safe? NLRB Judge Finds AT&T’s Non-Mandatory Arbitration Agreement with Non-Union Employees Unlawful
By Kat Paterno on
Posted in NLRB Developments, Non-Union
Even further expanding the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB”) holdings in D.R. Horton and Murphy Oil limiting employer requirements concerning class action waivers, on June 26, 2015, an NLRB administrative law judge (“ALJ”) ruled that even a non-mandatory arbitration agreement that is voluntarily entered into by employees is unlawful if it requires employees to waive…