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Similar to noncompetes, forced arbitration agreements are infesting every employer/employee relationship. I recently had to pass on joining a really cool startu
by subway 8y ago
Similar to noncompetes, forced arbitration agreements are infesting every employer/employee relationship. I recently had to pass on joining a really cool startup because their PEO insisted on an arbitration agreement. The startup offered to bring me on 1099 to work around the PEO, but I'm not really interested in the overhead of managing my own health insurance, etc right now.
Somewhat amusingly, days after settling back in at my current employer I logged in to our PEO's interface and found myself staring at fresh employment agreement... with a nasty arbitration clause smack in the middle. Fortunately current employer was willing to stand up to their PEO and get it removed company wide.
Fucking lawyers man.
- gwbas1c 8y agoI'm loosing count of the number of situations I've walked away from because the contract included boilerplate stuff like that; AND the person who wanted me to sign the contract had no clue about the BS in the contract. Right out of college, some guy wanted me to sign a NOLO contract that you'd use for hiring someone as a general contractor for your home. Walked away from that. I almost bought some land where the developer set up a boilerplate HOA that restricted things like boats in a town where everyone has a boat... And my direct neighbor wasn't part of the HOA!