Case: Discrimination/Arbitration (E.D. Pa.)

A Pennsylvania federal district court denied Raising Cane’s Restaurants, LLC’s motion to compel arbitration in a Title VII of the Civil Rights Act employment discrimination case brought by a gay, Jewish former restaurant employee who alleged sexual orientation discrimination and harassment, finding that the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 allowed the former employee to decline arbitration since derogatory remarks about gay people constituted a “sexual harassment dispute,” and that his counsel lacked authority to bind his client to a subsequent arbitration agreement.

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