United States Ninth Circuit

The district court's order denying defendant-employer's motion to compel arbitration of an employee's claims that were brought as a putative class action alleging violations of state and federal employment laws, is reversed and remanded, where: 1) defendant's employee arbitration policy was changed to preclude employees from bringing most class action lawsuits; 2) the parties entered into a valid agreement to arbitrate disputes on an individual basis; 3) defendant satisfied the minimal requirements under California law for providing employees with reasonable notice of a change to its employee handbook by sending a letter to the employees informing them of the modification, and not seeking to enforce the arbitration provision during the 30 day notice period; and 4) defendant was not bound to inform the employee that her continued employment after receiving the letter constituted acceptance on new terms of employment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/23/2014
• Published 06/23/2014

Judges

• SMITH

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

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