Posts from September 2026.
Signed the Same Day, Read Together: The Mutuality Problem Hiding in Onboarding Documents | By: Jared W. Slater

An arbitration agreement can appear mutual on its face and still be interpreted as favoring the employer. That has become a recurring ground for courts to deny employer motions to compel arbitration, and Cluck v. GEO Secure Services, LLC is the latest example. In Cluck, California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal held that the arbitration agreement had to be construed together with a confidentiality agreement the employee signed the same day. The two documents read together were held to be substantively unconscionable because they sent the employee’s likely claims to ...

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