Case: Individual Employment Rights/Arbitration (1st Cir.)

The First Circuit ruled that a federal court in New Hampshire erred by refusing to enforce arbitration clauses in the employment agreement of a former Black insurance agent for New York Life to compel arbitration of his race discrimination and state laws claims. New York Life said the arbitration clauses survived under an explicit “survival” clause in the employment agreement and asked the court to compel arbitration and stay or dismiss the lawsuit. The text of the parties’ agreement clearly, unmistakably, and unambiguously delegates the arbitrability dispute at issue to the arbitrator, the court of appeals held. The employment agreement ...