It has been perhaps a disorienting couple of weeks for those keeping track of where, and how, employers can be sued by their employees. Take, for example, the May 10 step toward transparency in the #MeToo era by Uber Technologies Inc., which announced that it will not push for individual sexual harassment and assault claims to be determined through private arbitration proceedings going forward. Instead, Uber will defend all such claims going forward in the forum of the plaintiff’s choice—including in open court, if that is where the plaintiff opts to file.

Then, on May 21, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that can be viewed as a boon for all companies seeking to hold their employees to individual (i.e., private) arbitration agreements that include class or collective action waivers. In a 5-4 decision, with Justice Neil Gorsuch writing for the majority, the court ruled that employee arbitration agreements must be enforced according to their terms—including to the extent that such agreements require one-on-one arbitration, as opposed to collective arbitrations or class action suits, see Epic Systems v. Lewis, — S.Ct. –, No. 16-285 (May 21, 2018).

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