{"id":59,"date":"2016-02-25T12:10:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T16:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/?p=59"},"modified":"2016-10-26T10:11:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:11:34","slug":"wendys-franchisees-employment-arbitration-agreement-is-found-to-be-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/2016\/02\/25\/wendys-franchisees-employment-arbitration-agreement-is-found-to-be-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy\u2019s Franchisee\u2019s Employment Arbitration Agreement Is Found to Be Illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By: Sheila Raftery Wiggins<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The NLRB ruled\u00a0that the mandatory arbitration agreement &#8211; which a\u00a0Wendy\u2019s franchisee\u00a0asks its employees to sign &#8211; contains illegal waivers of class and collective rights. The NLRB\u2019s decision conflicts with a federal appellate court ruling in 2013 in a case known as <em>D.R. Horton<\/em>.\u00a0 Expect more cases &#8211; in the NLRB and the court system &#8211; to resolve this\u00a0dispute.\u00a0LESSON:\u00a0Check your employment agreements and the arbitration clauses.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/sheilarafterywiggins.html\">Sheila Raftery Wiggins<\/a>, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/offices\/newark.html\">Newark office<\/a>, handles matters involving complex commercial disputes, insurance defense, coverage disputes, financial fraud, and attorney ethics.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Sheila Raftery Wiggins The NLRB ruled\u00a0that the mandatory arbitration agreement &#8211; which a\u00a0Wendy\u2019s franchisee\u00a0asks its employees to sign &#8211; contains illegal waivers of class and collective rights. The NLRB\u2019s decision conflicts with a federal appellate court ruling in 2013 in a case known as D.R. Horton.\u00a0 Expect more cases &#8211; in the NLRB and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/2016\/02\/25\/wendys-franchisees-employment-arbitration-agreement-is-found-to-be-illegal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wendy\u2019s Franchisee\u2019s Employment Arbitration Agreement Is Found to Be Illegal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[155,154,156,41,157,8,153],"ppma_author":[191],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-arbitration","tag-arbitration-agreement","tag-d-r-horton","tag-lesson","tag-nlrb","tag-sheila-raftery-wiggins","tag-wendys"],"authors":[{"term_id":191,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}