Arbitration is failing California employees

The Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Popular Democracy projects that by 2024, almost 83 percent of the country's private, non-unionized employees will be hashing out complaints with their employers behind closed doors, an increase of 56 percent since 2017. Despite recent moves by Google and some others to abandon forced arbitration clauses in employment and sexual harassment disputes, arbitration clauses will continue to be the norm until the laws change. Thus, having good data about arbitration outcomes is critical. Without this information, there is no way to identify repeat players, connect the dots, and use market forces to push toward fairer outcomes. (Shutterstock)