Ex-HR Head Must Arbitrate Bias Claims Against Metaverse Company

Metaverse company Everyrealm Inc. and three of its officers can require a former human resources executive to arbitrate her gender, sexual orientation, disability, and marital status discrimination claims.

Katherine Yost failed to back her contention that arbitration under any of the three separate agreements she signed with Everyrealm’s predecessors after initially being hired as an external chief HR officer in December 2021 would force her to pay unreasonably high arbitration costs, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said.

The cost-splitting provision Yost pointed to wasn’t included in the third and controlling agreement, and Yost didn’t ...