Case: Labor Relations/Arbitration (2d Cir.)

A home health care worker must arbitrate her putative class claims that Attending Homecare Services LLC unlawfully failed to pay its workers overtime and spread-of-hours pay. A lower federal court found that the arbitration clause in the applicable labor contract violated her due process rights because “the worker apparently has no part in selection of the arbitrator,” but a union was authorized to negotiate the clause as the worker’s bargaining representative, and she doesn’t argue that its procedures are lacking in notice, that the selected arbitrator is biased, or that he would conduct arbitration proceedings in bad faith, a federal ...