*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: The Supreme Court Sticks It to Workers, Again Author: Op-Ed

*Source: * NYT

*Date: *May 24, 2018

*Summary:* The case involved claims by workers at three companies that their employers underpaid them. The companies’ employment contracts required their workers to pursue any pay disputes in arbitration rather than in a regular court, and to do so individually — which is prohibitively expensive for most workers. Following a line of business-friendly decisions involving arbitration, the court ruled 5 to 4 for the employers https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/business/supreme-court-upholds-workplace-arbitration-contracts.html and their bars against class actions even in arbitration Link: https://nyti.ms/2GS9WoU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary@work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library