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Seventh Circuit Creates Split on Class Waivers – Employment Law This Week

By Epstein Becker Green on June 8, 2016

Posted in Collective Bargaining Agreements, NLRB Developments, Practices and Procedures

One of the top stories featured on Employment Law This Week: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has joined the National Labor Relations Board in finding that arbitration agreements containing class action waivers violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

At issue is a collective and class action by employees of Epic…

Federal Appeals Court Sides with NLRB – Holds Arbitration Agreement and Class Action Waiver Violates Employee Rights and Unenforceable

By Steven M. Swirsky on May 31, 2016

Posted in NLRB Developments

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago has now sided with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) in its decision in Lewis v. Epic Systems Corporation, and found that an employer’s arbitration agreement that it required all of its workers to…

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Seventh Circuit Creates Split on Class Waivers – Employment Law This Week

Federal Appeals Court Sides with NLRB – Holds Arbitration Agreement and Class Action Waiver Violates Employee Rights and Unenforceable

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