Dollar General Worker’s Standalone Arbitration Contract Is Valid

Dollar General Corp. and a subsidiary can force a worker to arbitrate her wage claims under a standalone online arbitration agreement that’s part of her larger employment contract, a federal judge said.

The worker made a “novel argument” that the agreement shouldn’t count because it wasn’t a provision within a larger contract. But the arbitration agreement was still part of the other documents she signed, which together “constitute contractual terms of her at-will employment,” the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania said Thursday.

Melissa Griffith sued the discount store chain and subsidiary Dolgencorp LLC on behalf of ...