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foreign [Music] key issues that employers need to be aware of if you've got an arbitration agreement right now some of the things that we see is that we may have spam uh Spanish large Spanish-speaking portion of the workforce and those employees challenge it because the arbitration agreement wasn't translated into Spanish I recommend if you have a large percentage of Spanish-speaking employees definitely trans translate that even without the translated version the English version uh there you can successfully still compel that employee to arbitration more and more employers are going online with their onboarding process including arbitration agreements so you want to make sure that you have that all buttoned up that there can be no Challenge on the electronic signature that it's stated that you've got a history of it and it's easily presented when you file your Motion in in court we do not recommend that you have arbitration agreements and a handbook you want to have your arbitration agreements in a stand-alone document that lessens the chance of a challenge saying that the I didn't know what I was signing it was buried in a 40 page handbook these Provisions don't afford me due process because it was buried in the handbook and then obviously train your supervisors in HR Personnel about the the arbitrations have make sure you have a set up how you process and store and retrieve these signed arbitration agreements when a complaint is filed you have to very quickly act to move to compel within 30 days so if if you have a difficult time finding where these arbitration Agreements are you may run pass it missed that 30 days so set it up in a way that uh they're easily accessible and um then also timely uh pay the arbitration fees itself there's a new law that just came into effect that uh if the arbitrary if the employer does not pay all the arbitration fees do uh in that 30 days then the the the the employee can move the claim out of arbitration and back into court and you know we always recommend and especially with all these changes and nuances in the law have your arbitration agreements regular reviewed uh by uh Council [Music] foreign [Music]