[loteck]

For those living in California, this issue of requiring arbitration contracts in the pre-employment stage is under consideration from the state legislature, and the bill has some heat on it.

This bill would prohibit an employer from, as a condition of employment or as a condition of entering into a contractual agreement, prohibiting an employee or independent contractor from disclosing to any person an instance of sexual harassment that the employee or independent contractor suffers, witnesses, or discovers in the workplace or in the performance of the contract. The bill would also prohibit an employer from requiring any applicant for employment or prospective employment or any employee to waive any right, forum, or procedure for a violation of any provision of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) or other specific statutes governing employment, as a condition of employment, continued employment, or the receipt of any employment-related benefit. The bill would also prohibit an employer from threatening, retaliating or discriminating against, or terminating any applicant for employment or prospective employment or any employee because of the refusal to consent to the waiver of any right, forum, or procedure for a violation of specific statutes governing employment. The bill would establish a specific exemption from those prohibitions. Because a violation of these prohibitions would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

[djsumdog]

Another thing that makes me want to move to California. CA laws ban non-compete agreements with the state and there seems to be a tremendous amount of laws geared to protect the employee.

[s73v3r_]

Unfortunately, it seems like it only would ban the arbitration requirement in the case of sexual harassment or the like.