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Labor/Employment

Nov. 29, 2012

NLRB's 24 Hour Fitness ruling consistent with precedent

The ruling reaffirms decades of precedent affirming the principle that employers cannot enter into individual agreements with employees that restrict the statutory right to act collectively. By Eli Kantor


By Eli Kantor


In 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc and Alton J. Sanders, NLRB Case 20-CA-035419 (Nov. 6, 2012), Administrative Law Judge William L. Schmidt found that 24 Hour Fitness maintained and enforced an unlawful arbitration policy that required employees to give up their federally protected right to take concerted action by including a class action waiver in its arbitration policy and by prohibiting employees from discussing their claims with their co-worker...

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