U.S. Top Court Backs Companies Over Worker Class-Action Claims

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Reuters May 21, 2018

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to the rights of workers on Monday by allowing companies to require them to sign away their ability to bring class-action claims against management, agreements already in place for about 25 million employees.

The justices, in a 5-4 ruling with the court's conservatives in the majority, endorsed the legality of the growing practice by companies to compel workers to sign arbitration agreements waiving their right to bring class-action claims on various disputes, primarily over wages and hours.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-top-court-backs-companies-over-worker-class-141107855--finance.html

[WingNot]

Oh the wail of the liberal banshee has started.....

Can you hear them?

[Emjay]

Oh the wail of the liberal banshee has started.....

Can you hear them?

I hear them even in the middle of the Pacific.  Class action suits have been abused, as have so many other lawsuits. 

[Fantom]

I hear them even in the middle of the Pacific.  Class action suits have been abused, as have so many other lawsuits.

Indeed, class action has been abused. A good reform would be to pay the lawyers doing the suing, the average individual payout for the lowest quintil in the suit. And that would be for the whole "firm" of maggots...er lawyers to split up... 'Mongst themselves.