Litigation & Arbitration
Apr. 14, 2022
Language barrier and oppressive tactics means arbitration agreement won’t be enforced
The employee was told the English-language agreement involved a change of company, not that it waived his right to a jury trial, and the employee was instructed to sign it or be fired.
Ryan D. Kashfian
Kashfian & Kashfian LLP
1875 Century Park E
Los Angeles , CA 90067
Phone: (310) 751-7578
Email: ryan@kashfianlaw.com
Robert A. Kashfian
Kashfian & Kashfian LLP
1875 Century Park E
Los Angeles , CA 90067
Phone: 310-751-7578
Email: robert@kashfianlaw.com
“More than half – 53.9 percent – of nonunion private-sector employers have mandatory arbitration procedures.” Economic Policy Institute, A. Colvin, The Growing Use of Mandatory Arbitration 1-2 (Sept. 27, 2017), available at https://www.epi.org/files/pdf/135056.pdf. And, for California employers, the reasons for arbitrating are many: speedier resolution in California’s backlogged judicial system, the uncertainty of jury verdicts and the tremendous expense of post-tria...
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