San Diego, Calif.’s old-line Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps discriminates against would-be employees by making them sign mandatory arbitration clauses as a condition of work, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has alleged in federal court.
Weighing in on an issue that has already been rejected by the state Supreme Court, the EEOC filed its suit Feb. 7 in U.S. district court in Los Angeles, seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for legal secretary Donald Lagatree.
