The Supreme Court Delivers an Epic Blow to Employee Class and Collective Actions
On May 21, 2018, a closely divided Supreme Court issued a much-anticipated decision holding that arbitration agreements containing class and collective action waivers must be enforced under the Federal Arbitration Act (the “FAA”), 9 U.S.C. 1, et seq. Writing for the Court, Justice Neil Gorsuch ruled that neither the FAA’s savings clause nor the National Labor Relations Act nullified the…