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My employer sent me a form asking me to sign on to an arbitration agreement for my already existing salaried job a year or so back. I considered saying sure, so
by User23 8y ago
My employer sent me a form asking me to sign on to an arbitration agreement for my already existing salaried job a year or so back. I considered saying sure, so long as you're willing to offer me an employment contract, but eventually I decided to ignore it. Looks like that's moot now.
- DannyBee 8y agoThis is the problem with passing laws that directly conflict with federal law - it makes people think, like you do, that these issues are moot, when that's wrong.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoIt also frequently gets resolved by a case making it to the Supreme Court. State laws are not supposed to conflict with federal law.
- jkaplowitz 8y agoIf I'm not mistaken, SCOTUS recently ruled that the FAA lets employers force arbitration on their employers. (Simplifying slight for the purpose of a snappy comment, but this California law may not be fully valid.)
- User23 8y agoExcept for the evident marijuana exception.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoYes, a large scale movement can challenge federal law. It starts by passing laws at the state level. In a case like that, they are sort of hoping it goes to the Supreme Court and the court finds in their favor. One of the issues marijuana growers and sellers are having is that they have trouble establishing bank accounts because banks don't want to be in violation of federal regulation. The people passing pro mj laws and starting legitimate mj businesses could be viewed as a quiet, non violent civil rights movement. Everyone doing stuff in that space is sticking their neck out. I'm allergic to mj, so I'm not willing to stick my neck out, but I am for the legalization of mj. I have done some research on the topic and I have tremendous respect for the people quietly working to make this legal in the US.
- oceanghost 8y agoI had an employer who did this on a regular basis. HR would hound you to sign all sorts of agreements, even going so far as to say "You have to sign this." It was never clear what would happen if I didn't. I'm not certain you can force someone to sign a contract as a condition of employment. My buddy came up with an ingenious solution-- we signed each other's documents in our own handwriting, so if we ever had to we could say, "That's not my handwriting."
- pseudalopex 8y ago"Do you know whose handwriting it is?"
- oxide 8y ago"No?"
- pseudalopex 8y agoIf you're just going to lie, why bother having someone else sign it?
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- vageli 8y agoPlausible deniability.
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