> Nadler emphasized that the bill would not ban all arbitration pacts—only mandatory pre-dispute agreements. Parties would still be free to choose arbitration after the dispute arises.
Arbitration is still available, but employees can't be forced to sign agreements to arbitrate future disputes.
Absolutely horrible, won't you think of the mom and pop shops that force their employees into binding arbitration agreements?
It's pretty mask off when a bill that makes it so that both parties have to agree and have the right to to refuse arbitration means an effective ban on it.
A much larger proportion of companies that behave in abusive ways towards their employees are small businesses as opposed to large companies.
Aside from all of the above, small business owners are far more likely to act like they're doing their employees a huge favor by hiring them than managers at big companies. One small company I worked at was particularly abusive: we were all making 2/3 of what we would've been making at other companies, we had no health insurance (which got me financially destroyed on my taxes), no vacation days, I had to beg my boss to give me a day off if some emergency came up and I had to take off (which he'd only give me half the time), my boss yelled so much at myself and my coworkers that at any large company he would've been frog-marched into HR's office and sent packing (or rather, large companies would vet their managerial candidates so they'd never hire someone like him in the first place), we worked in an absolute shithole of an office building where things went wrong constantly, the building manager didn't give a shit, and actively treated us like garbage when we complained, and the company's leaders just rolled over and took it because they didn't have any other option (we were literally the very first tenant in an office building that had just been renovated after being closed for a decade and got a massive discount on rent because of it; we couldn't afford offices anyplace else). Every other company I've worked for has been larger than them and never pulled any of this shit. I'll never work for a small business ever again; in fact, I currently work for a megacorp and love it.
Political strategy to both claim political points and yet make sure nothing passes. At the end of the day, there is a whole lot of posturing and flags of victory by both sides. Republicans love it because it keeps the corporate America on their toes to keep politicians closely in their pockets. Democrats love it because it makes their party look better even if/ when they are complete trash.
Sickening.
2. Why would you be thankful if it were to fail?
I handle litigation for my company. The far majority of it is someone looking for a payday. We blow millions of dollars on lawyers fighting BS lawsuits. It sickens me. I'm a lawyer and litigators disgust me (for the most part). It's 90% bottom feeders.
SHRM.org is not biased on this topic at all, and their coverage of the topic is 100% objective! /s
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