California would violate federal law if it tried to prohibit employers from requiring workers to agree to mandatory arbitration as a condition of employment, Gov.
Brown vetoed A.B. 3080 by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D) that would have restricted the use of arbitration. It was one of several inspired by the #MeToo movement. Although he signed bills to ban nondisclosure agreements in court settlements and allow workers to sue for a single incident of harassment, Brown vetoed the arbitration bill and several others before his deadline of midnight Sept. 30.
In his veto message, ...