A staffing firm can’t use its parent company’s arbitration agreement with an engineer to stop him from pursuing a court case against the entity that hired him, a federal judge said.
The engineer agreed to arbitrate claims against RigUp Inc., now known as Workrise Technologies Inc. That agreement doesn’t allow RigUp subsidiary RUSCO Operating LLC to make the engineer arbitrate wage allegations against Nova Mud Inc., the staffing firm’s customer, the US District Court for the District of New Mexico said.
Engineer James Oldham accuses Nova Mud, an oil-and-gas services firm, of misclassifying him as an independent contractor when ...
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