A former Menard Inc. worker can keep her sexual harassment lawsuit in court thanks to a recent federal law banning forced arbitration of those claims in the wake of the #MeToo movement, a judge said.
The ex-employee plausibly alleged a sexual harassment claim that accrued after the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act took effect in 2022, so the home improvement chain can’t get her suit kicked out of court, the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio said Monday.
The case is among early attempts to figure out how to apply the new ...
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