Ending Forced Arbitration of Race Claims Is New Diversity Focus

Worker advocates are hoping to build on the success of the #MeToo movement to further curtail a procedural tactic they say creates an uneven playing field against employees with race discrimination claims: mandatory arbitration.

The height of the #MeToo movement in 2017 saw some of the biggest US corporations—including Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google, and Wells Fargo & Co.—ending forced arbitration of sexual harassment-related complaints. Those changes led to increased scrutiny for other workplace issues such as promotion and the gender pay gap.

Three years later, the Black Lives Matter movement that followed George Floyd’s death in ...