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I have a Brady attorney Richard Scheller here April 2019 wanted to talk today about a recent Supreme Court ruling which is going to make the use of what's called alternate dispute resolution or arbitration agreements more prevalent in employment situations so let me explain you what it means first of all employers in this country can make employees sign an agreement as a condition of coming to work that says they're not allowed to go to court but they have to go what before what's called a private arbitrator or into an arbitration where a judge that your former employer pays for decides your case rather than a jury of the public now it's not a great situation for an employee to be in because remember who's paying the judge to make a decision it's your former employer so the judge is going to want to have more work from them in the future so they're more likely in my opinion to rule in favor of your employer even if your case is solid so from an employment law perspective as an employment lawyer for employees we generally do not want to be in arbitration but what happens is as the Supreme Court and courts are starting to enforce more and more of these arbitration provisions which decide and probably don't even read at the beginning of your employment it's taking the employees access to court which is a fundamental right away and the court seemed to be really okay with doing this so that's what the law is now and now the Supreme Court has essentially killed any employee entitlement to class actions in courts because there's a recent Supreme Court decision from a couple days ago which essentially moves everything to arbitration and says that all class actions if the employee signs up have to go to arbitration rather than in front of a judge that's appointed by the public or the president and it's not a great situation so employers what you're going to see over the next year or so we think they're gonna start rolling out arbitration agreements in the workplace where anytime somebody comes to work for the employer they have to something that says I agree that if I'm discriminated against or not paid properly my claims can't go to court they're gonna go to arbitration instead and I'm agreeing that I can't be part of a class action I can only fight for my own rights so it's a terrible decision arbitration is generally not what our employees want to be for the reasons I have stated as an employment lawyer there are some upsides in terms of requiring the arbitration process to move forward the upside is one it puts a lot of pressure on the employer because they have to pay all of the arbitrator fees and that could be thirty to fifty thousand dollars to just pay the judge to ultimately decide the case I talked about why...