November 27, 2023
The Ninth Circuit has upheld a lower court's decision denying a harbor towing company's bid to arbitrate a deck engineer's wage-and-hour suit, finding there to be no valid arbitration agreement covering the engineer's statutory wage claims without a "clear and unmistakable waiver of a judicial forum" for those claims.
February 10, 2023
Over the next week, attorneys should watch for a potential ruling on Mattress Firm Inc.'s motion to send a representative wage and hour case to arbitration, a bid that invoked the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Viking River Cruises Inc. v. Moriana. Here's a look at the Mattress Firm case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.