Tag:employment compliance trends
Are Forum Selection Clauses the New Mandatory Arbitration Agreements?
In recent years, employment contracts have become increasingly laden with procedural clauses that dramatically shape where and how disputes are resolved. While mandatory arbitration agreements that require private dispute resolution remain common, employers are increasingly turning to forum selection and choice of law clauses as an alternative or supplement. The questions are whether these clauses are functionally becoming the new mandatory arbitration agreements, and whether they hide compliance traps that both employers and employees should be paying attention to.
New for 2022: Employment Compliance Trends
2021 brought on many challenges never faced before for employers, most of which surrounded the central issue of working from home. Employers struggled to keep employees focused with all the distractions of being at home, technology connectivity issues, and making sure employees could still stay connected on a personal level with co-workers. While we may finally be shifting slightly away from the work from home space, 2022 will bring on a whole new variety of employment compliance issues that companies will need to tackle. Now that employees are coming back to the office, the focus will be shifted from managing work from home experiences to minimum wage increases, discrimination protections, and marijuana legalizations just to name a few.