A New York home care worker who accused her employer of pay violations under state and federal law must litigate her claims in arbitration, the Manhattan federal appeals court said in reversing a lower court’s decision.

A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that an arbitration clause in a collective bargaining agreement between a union of home health care workers and Attending Homecare Services mandated that plaintiff Tatyana Abdullayeva’s claims be hashed out privately.