Halliburton Worker Must Arbitrate Age and Disability Claims

A Halliburton employee who says he was fired because of his age and his disability must arbitrate his claims, a federal judge ruled.

Robert Harvey was 61 when he was fired in 2016. And he had just had two surgeries and begun other long-term treatment for his rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis, he says.

But Halliburton Energy Services Inc.'s employment dispute resolution program was already in place in the late 1990s when Harvey was hired by the company as part of its acquisition of the bentonite mining and production facility where he worked, the U.S. District Court for the District of ...