Case: Individual Employment Rights/Arbitration (M.D. Fla.)

A Florida federal district court granted Magical Cruise Company’s motion to compel arbitration and denied the plaintiff crewmember’s motion to remand in a case involving claims for Jones Act negligence, unseaworthiness under general maritime law, failure to provide maintenance and cure, unpaid wages, breach of contract, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, finding that the plaintiff had signed an employment contract validly incorporating a collective bargaining agreement with an arbitration provision, and that all his claims were actually arbitrable termination of employment issues despite being framed as maritime injury claims.

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