If your company relies on an employment arbitration agreement, you already know California keeps handing employees new ways out of one. One of the newest is a 2021 federal law that lets a worker alleging sexual harassment void the agreement and head to court. That law is real, and it has teeth. But a California Court of Appeal just drew …
Fuentes v. Empire Nissan: California Arbitration Agreement Enforceability Turns on Readability and Ordinary Contract Rules
California arbitration enforceability fights are increasingly won or lost on something that sounds almost too basic to matter: could the employee reasonably read what they were asked to sign, and do the surrounding circumstances show meaningful assent? Fuentes v. Empire Nissan, Inc. is the Supreme Court’s clearest reminder that formatting and onboarding process are not side issues—they can shape the …

