The waiver bars class and collective treatment, requiring individual arbitration. Epic Systems upheld these waivers against National Labor Relations Act challenges.
State law challenges including PAGA have produced varying results.
Alternative Names:
Employment Class Waiver|Collective Action Waiver
Why it Matters?
Mass individual arbitration has undercut the waiver's protective value, since plaintiff firms file thousands of individual demands and the arbitration filing fees alone can exceed the class exposure. Batching provisions and bellwether protocols in newer agreements address the exposure. California's PAGA representative actions also resisted waiver until Viking River, which permitted arbitration of individual PAGA claims while the representative component remained contested.
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What undercuts the waiver's value?
How do newer agreements respond?
