• Neuromancer@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    I think forced arbitration should be illegal. I’m suing an old employer. They had an arbitration clause hidden in the contract. It just allows them to ignore federal Eeoc laws since they can just arbitrate it.

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      7 months ago

      It just allows them to ignore federal Eeoc laws since they can just arbitrate it.

      That sounds suspect. EEOC is federal. I find it doubtful a company can simply choose to opt-out of those laws.

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        7 months ago

        They can. The Feds can sue on behalf of you but thy rarely do. They admitted in writing they ignore the ada since they can’t be sue. Judge still forced it to arbitration.

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        7 months ago

        When I talk about working with senators. This is one of the topics I’m discussing. Federal laws should not be forced into arbitration. It allows companies to abuse federal law

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          Personally I don’t think forced arbitration should exist for any law. It’s a way for large corporations to avoid legal responsibility.
          I always find it odd how easy it seems to be to just sign your rights away in the US.

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        Arbitration should only be allowed when you get something for it. They’ll give you 10k for going to arbitration or something. Otherwise it’s just abusive or you get to pick the arbitrator.

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          Signing your rights away should never be possible, even if you get something in return. Allowing that is just making the system ripe for abuse.

          At what point would you say you’ve met the threshold of something being valuable enough for forced arbitration to be allowable?