BY MELANIE TROTTMAN
Employers can’t require their employees to sign arbitration agreements that forbid the workers from collectively pursuing legal claims over issues such as pay and hours, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in a decision likely to rile business groups.
In a vote taken Tuesday but disclosed late Friday by the agency, the board decided employers that require such agreements as a term of employment are breaking federal labor law. The decision, which was backed by the board’s two Democrats, was among the final votes the three-member board took before Democrat Craig Becker’s term expired. …
BY MELANIE TROTTMAN
Employers can’t require their employees to sign arbitration agreements that forbid the workers from collectively pursuing legal claims over issues such as pay and hours, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in a decision likely to rile business groups.
In a vote taken Tuesday but disclosed late Friday by the agency, the board decided employers that require such agreements as a term of employment are breaking federal labor law. The decision, which was backed by the board’s two Democrats, was among the final votes the three-member board took before Democrat Craig Becker’s term expired. …