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An Essay Challenging The Racially Biased Selection Of Arbitrators For Employment Discrimination Suits, Michael Z. Green
An Essay Challenging The Racially Biased Selection Of Arbitrators For Employment Discrimination Suits, Michael Z. Green
Michael Z. Green
Since 1991, employers have increasingly decided to require that employees agree to arbitrate statutory employment discrimination claims as a condition of employment. This Essay seeks to expose some of the potential discriminatory components that may arise in the arbitrator selection process while highlighting the lack of legal remedy for those who believe that employers, in conjunction with neutral service provders, have stacked the pool in favor of having arbitrators who tend to be older, white and male. The Essay suggests the use of 42 U.S.C. Section 1981 as a potential remedy and challenge to the dearth of arbitrators of color …
An Essay Challenging The Racially Biased Selection Of Arbitrators For Employment Discrimination Suits, Michael Z. Green
An Essay Challenging The Racially Biased Selection Of Arbitrators For Employment Discrimination Suits, Michael Z. Green
Michael Z. Green
Since 1991, employers have increasingly decided to require that employees agree to arbitrate statutory employment discrimination claims as a condition of employment. This Essay seeks to expose some of the potential discriminatory components that may arise in the arbitrator selection process while highlighting the lack of legal remedy for those who believe that employers, in conjunction with neutral service provders, have stacked the pool in favor of having arbitrators who tend to be older, white and male. The Essay suggests the use of 42 U.S.C. Section 1981 as a potential remedy and challenge to the dearth of arbitrators of color …
Reading Ricci And Pyett To Provide Racial Justice Through Union Arbitration, Michael Z. Green
Reading Ricci And Pyett To Provide Racial Justice Through Union Arbitration, Michael Z. Green
Michael Z. Green
With the current political climate regarding racial issues, any positive gains in resolving race discrimination claims in the workplace cannot come from new legislation through the Obama administration. Instead, those gains will have to come from within the workplace. Unions and their employee members must work together and with employers to resolve those disputes. Specifically, in this Article, two high-profile employment discrimination cases decided by the Supreme Court during President Obama's first year in office--Ricci v. DeStefano and Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett--help identify a framework whereby employees with racial discrimination claims against their employers may work with …
Retaliatory Employment Arbitration, Michael Z. Green
Retaliatory Employment Arbitration, Michael Z. Green
Michael Z. Green
In 2014, we reach a key milestone with the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ("Title VII"). This landmark federal legislation, which prohibits discrimination in the workplace, also created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"). This Article focuses on the use of arbitration, a form of alternative dispute resolution ("ADR"), to decide federal employment discrimination claims brought under that and related statutes. Specifically, this Article addresses the use of so-called "mandatory," "forced," "employer-mandated," or "pre-dispute" or "compelled" agreements to arbitrate that have garnered much attention and criticism over the past twenty …
Panel 3: Individuals, The Collective, And Democracy: Race, Class, Gender, Disability, And Individual Employee Rights, Addie C. Rolnick, Michael Z. Green, Francine J. Lipman, Nicole B. Porter, Gowri Ramachandran, Terry Smith
Panel 3: Individuals, The Collective, And Democracy: Race, Class, Gender, Disability, And Individual Employee Rights, Addie C. Rolnick, Michael Z. Green, Francine J. Lipman, Nicole B. Porter, Gowri Ramachandran, Terry Smith
Michael Z. Green
Moderator: Addie Rolnick
Michael Z. Green: Black Worker Voice in Times of Joblessness and Anti-Racism Backlash
Francine J. Lipman: What's Tax Got to Do With It?
Nicole B. Porter: Women, Unions, and Negotiation
Gowri Ramachandran: Pay Transparency
Terry Smith: Law's Austerity: Capital, Labor, and Race in the Globalized Economy
Measures To Encourage And Reward Post-Dispute Agreements To Arbitrate Employment Discrimination Claims, Michael Z. Green
Measures To Encourage And Reward Post-Dispute Agreements To Arbitrate Employment Discrimination Claims, Michael Z. Green
Michael Z. Green
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