Labor/Employment
Jan. 10, 2017
Class action waivers and the NLRA
Under the most recent 9th Circuit ruling in the Uber case, it remains an open question whether the NLRA allows employers to include a class action waiver provision in an independent contractor agreement's arbitration clause. By Sarah Hofstadter
Sarah Hofstadter
Of Counsel
California Appellate Law Group LLP
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Stanford Univ Law School
Sarah Hofstadter is of counsel with the California Appellate Law Group LLP, an appellate boutique based in San Francisco. She spent more than a dozen years as a research and staff attorney for jurists on the California Courts of Appeal and the 9th Circuit. Find out more about Sarah and the California Appellate Law Group LLP at www.calapplaw.com
In a widely publicized decision issued last September, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that arbitration clauses in the contracts between Uber and its drivers were enforceable, and thus precluded the drivers from pursuing their claims in court. Mohamed v. Uber Technologies, Inc., 836 F.3d 1102 (9th Cir. 2016), reversing in part Mohamed v. Uber Technologies, Inc., 109 F.Supp.3d 1185 (N.D. Cal. 2015). ...
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