Recent ADR Journal stories tagged Employment Disputes.
A US federal appeals court has affirmed the dismissal of Zia Chishti's lawsuit against Tatiana Spottiswoode and others, leaving a 2019 arbitration award in Spottiswoode's favor un...
On July 10, 2026, British Columbia's Labour Minister Jennifer Whiteside appointed veteran mediator Vince Ready and Amanda Rogers to act as special mediators in the dispute between...
On July 8, 2026, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that a former Netflix employee's sexual harassment claims must proceed through private arbitration rather than in publi...
The British Columbia Labour Relations Board has ruled that Amazon and Unifor, representing workers at the YVR2 warehouse in Delta, must resolve their first collective agreement th...
Live Nation has petitioned a Los Angeles court to move ex-executive Nicholas Rumanes' $35 million whistleblower lawsuit into private arbitration, citing an arbitration agreement a...
On July 19, 2026, the US District Court for the District of Columbia granted Fannie Mae's motion to compel arbitration and dismissed a lawsuit filed by 44 former employees. The em...
On July 27, 2026, the California Court of Appeal ruled in Decloedt v. Radnet Management, Inc. that claims involving harassment based on sexual orientation constitute 'sexual haras...
The British Columbia Nurses' Union (BCNU) and the Health Employers Association of BC have agreed to recommendations from mediators following several days of intensive talks, leadi...
Nearly two years after Chile implemented the Karin Law (Law No. 21.643) targeting workplace harassment, experts report significant case backlogs at the country's labor authority....
A US judge has ruled that layoffs of 26 Meta employees can proceed despite their claims that Meta's AI-driven evaluation tools were biased. The court declined to block the layoffs...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Zia Chishti, a former executive of Afiniti and TRG, which sought to ove...
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook (Meta) director and whistleblower, has filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Califo...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that former Netflix employee Jessica Combs must proceed with arbitration for her sexual harassment claims, as st...
On July 2, 2026, the California Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District published a decision refusing to enforce arbitration agreements used by Knight Sacramento SU Inc.,...
Norwegian unions representing offshore drilling and platform workers have entered state-mediated wage negotiations with employers. The talks, involving unions Styrke, Safe, and DS...
The Supreme Court of Texas has granted an environmental specialist's petition for review and remanded his case regarding a challenge to his employers' motion to compel arbitration...
WWE, Vince McMahon, and former employee Janel Grant have jointly requested a US court to postpone a hearing in their ongoing sex trafficking lawsuit as they actively discuss resol...
On June 2024, the US Supreme Court unanimously held in Flowers Foods v. Brock that drivers delivering goods as part of an interstate journey-known as 'last-mile' drivers-are exemp...
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that non-mutual offensive collateral estoppel cannot be used to preclude the enforcement of hundreds of arbitration agreements in a...
On May 28, 2026, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock clarifying and expanding the exemption for transportation workers unde...
On November 5, 2025, the US Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision holding that truck drivers who deliver goods solely within one state, but as part of an interstate distributi...
On June 13, 2024, the US Supreme Court unanimously held that independent bakery distributor drivers working for Flowers Foods and its subsidiaries are considered transportation wo...
On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court ruled that federal courts have jurisdiction to confirm or vacate an arbitration award when the court originally had jurisdiction over...