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BC Court of Appeal Upholds Arbitration and Foreign Law Clauses in Employee Incentive Plan

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In Aspen Technology, Inc. v. Wiederhold, 2025 BCCA 261 (Wiederhold), the British Columbia Court of Appeal enforced an arbitration/forum selection clause in an employee incentive plan, overturning a lower court decision and...more

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Another Day, Another Dispute Between Appellate Courts Over Employment Arbitrations

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The case of Parra Rodriguez v. Packers Sanitation Services LTD., LLC typifies the reason employers and employment counsel must stay on top of arbitration case developments....more

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Court of Appeal Harmonizes Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements with Arbitrator's Authority

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Readers of this blog are, by now, aware of California’s judicial and legislative hostility toward arbitration. Over the last few months, however, employers have seen a surprising number of appellate victories in their...more

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Plaintiffs, Not Defendants, Must Initiate Arbitration

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Arzate v. Ace American Insurance Company, — Cal. Rptr. 3d — (2025) began as a familiar case: plaintiffs signed arbitration agreements (“Agreement”) with their employer that contained a class action waiver. But when a dispute...more

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Arzate v. ACE American Insurance Company: Employer Not Required to Initiate Arbitration in Defense of Itself

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On June 18, 2021, a group of ACE American Insurance Company employees filed a class action suit alleging that ACE misclassified them as exempt employees....more

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Plaintiffs Are Responsible for Commencing Court-Ordered Arbitration

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The California Court of Appeal held that after the employer-defendant successfully moved to compel arbitration of the plaintiffs’ employment-related claims, the employer-defendant did not waive its right to arbitration by...more

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Equitable Estoppel Can Be Invoked By a Non-Signatory Joint Employer to Compel Arbitration

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Tell me if you have heard this one before: ten companies are sued by a former employee as “joint employers”, even though the employee technically worked for, and signed a binding arbitration agreement with, only one of them....more

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Another Arbitration Agreement Bites the Dust!

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The California Court of Appeal dealt another blow to arbitration, just months after we reported the last such decision here. This time, the Court ruled that the federal Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and...more

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