Two agencies review forced arbitration: EEOC gets injunction against company that told workers: accept ADR or quit

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The Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) has reiterated its opposition to mandatory arbitration clauses in employment contracts, and the National Labor Relations Board is reviewing the issue. While the EEOC supports voluntary arbitration, and has its own for EEOC charges, it helped persuade US District Judge Norman W Black to bar a Houston company from punishing employees who oppose its mandatory arbitration policy. The NLRB's legal department will rule this summer whether two Florida cases involve unfair labor practice.

Interpretation and construction, Laws, regulations and rules, Labor law, Dispute resolution (Law), Workers

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Law firm bias complaints rising: EEOC statistics show substantial leap in gender, age and disability claims

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Figures from the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission show a 58% leap from 1990 to 1995 in complaints against law firms citing race, gender, age, and disability bias. Changes in law firm culture, social expectations, case law, and legislation may explain the jump. A total of 336 workers filed complaints in 1995, up from 212 in 1990, with gender and disability complaints rising the most. Race-based complaints nearly equaled gender-based ones in number, despite the greater number of women in the profession.

Reports, Statistics, Discrimination, United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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Suing the firm

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Lawyers increasingly turn to lawsuits against their own present or former firms as a way to resolve grievances, reflecting changes in law firm culture and in broader society. Once such an act was unthinkable, but firms now face a more cutthroat environment that pits productivity formulas against the concepts of human capital and looking out for one another. Both sides suffer greatly in emotional and professional terms in such litigation, but law firms' code of silence and other problems ensure it will continue.

Legal services, Attorneys, Offices of Lawyers, Lawyers, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Employee dismissals, Employment terminations, Employment at will

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