UBS Securities Gets Ex-ESG Worker Bias Case Sent to Arbitration

UBS Securities LLC can enforce an arbitration agreement with a White worker who says the company fired him from its environmental, social, and governance team because of his race, gender, and Republican political affiliation.

The worker argued that the arbitration pact he signed shouldn’t apply to his retaliation and discrimination case. But the contract wasn’t illusory or unconscionable, so he must arbitrate his state and federal employment claims against the financial services company, the US District Court for the District of Alaska said Wednesday.

Plaintiff Cody Rice alleges women leading the ESG team, which he says trended more liberal, treated ...