Workers’ Lawyers End Turf War After High Court Arbitration Loss

Workers’ lawyers are uniting around arbitration as the new reality, following a recent Supreme Court decision that upended the business model for suing employers.

The justices ruled in May that companies may require workers to sign arbitration agreements waiving their rights to file a class or collective action. The decision, in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, is widely recognized as a major victory for employers. They now have the high court’s blessing to shield themselves from costly and sometimes embarrassing class actions.

Several big plaintiffs’ firms are fighting back by filing hundreds of solo arbitration claims against individual companies. ...