Case: Discrimination/Arbitration (D.D.C.)

A female former director of sales and marketing at one of Omni Hotels Management Corporation’s hotels must arbitrate her employment discrimination claims, despite her contention that the arbitration agreement isn’t valid or enforceable. The human resources director purportedly misled her into signing the agreement by telling her it mostly applied to collective bargaining and union matters, but such a statement, if made, should have caused her to at least briefly review the two-page document before signing it, the court said. Omni’s alleged failure to invoke arbitration immediately after she sued doesn’t bar compelled arbitration, as the hotel raised the issue ...