Equal Time with Martha Burk April 19, 2014 Denying Workers Their Day in Court
Workers– women and men alike -- are increasingly forced to sign arbitration agreements as a condition of getting hired. That means if they learn about pay discrimination or they are sexually harassed on the job, they can’t go to court – they’re forced to go to arbitration instead. And most of the time the arbitrator is chosen by -- you guessed it --the company of course.