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The Labor & Employment Blog provides employers with breaking news, insights, and legal analysis on the wide range of labor and employment issues facing employers and businesses.  While the Blog provides a general summary of regulation updates, it is not intended to be, and should not be relied upon as, legal advice.  The labor & employment attorneys at Chamberlain Hrdlicka stand ready to counsel employers on the issues they face.

Larry Carbo, Shareholder and Co-Chair

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Posts from March 2022.

In a recent Houston Business Journal article, Kellen Scott, shareholder in our Houston’s Labor & Employment and Commercial Litigation practices, discussed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 passed by the U.S. Congress in February. The bill, since signed into law by President Biden, invalidates pre-dispute arbitration clauses and restricts the enforceability of other agreements between businesses and individuals.

According to Scott, the Act amends the Federal Arbitration Act, to (i) prohibit enforcement of certain ...