Justice
Corporations Are Getting Better at Gutting Worker Protections
Thanks to a recent Supreme Court ruling, more and more companies are using forced arbitration to undermine state and local labor laws.
In May 2016, Brenda Rojas was hired as a server at a national chain restaurant in Salem, Oregon. On her first day, a manager sat down with her and five other new hires and handed them each in turn a tablet, asking them to tick off check boxes on the screen under their name.
“He just told us, ‘Oh, this is just saying that you’re not going to sue us ever,’” Rojas says of the legal forms she was given. “’And if you don’t sign it, you don’t get hired.’”