6th Circuit: Epic Ruling Dooms Employee’s Attempt To Skirt Arbitration Agreements

Mealey's (September 13, 2018, 10:52 AM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — A Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 15 reversed a trial court’s ruling that an employer’s arbitration agreements with approximately half the proposed members of a wage-and-hour collective action were unenforceable, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis (Jonathan Gaffers v. Kelly Services, Inc., No. 16-2210, 6th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 22613)....