Ninth Circuit Continues to Write the Story of Employment Arbitration Agreements in California

For our readers who are following the ongoing battle over employer arbitration agreements in California, you have probably been following the legal battle over AB 51 (2019), which added section 432.6 to the California Labor Code. When AB 51 was first signed by the governor, we expected that it would be challenged based on preemption by the Federal Arbitration Act. Litigation did ensue and, as we wrote about in this article, the district court issued a preliminary injunction preventing AB 51 from going into effect .

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