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Employment Arbitration Agreement an agreement between an employer and an employee, sometimes signed prior to employment and in some instances after employment has begun, in which both parties agree to submit any employment-related disputes to arbitration, rather than to the traditional court process.
Arbitration Act, or common law rules governing arbitration, an arbitrator makes a decision which is binding on the parties. If conducted solely pursuant to Title 17 of the Maryland Rules, and there is no agreement to the contrary, the arbitration is non-binding and the parties may accept or reject the award.
Bad. This question is often debated among attorneys, judges and arbitrators. Judges like arbitration because they're chronically overworked.
Arbitration is considered more efficient, cheaper, and faster by employers, but often employee rights are left behind. Arbitrators often side with employees, and may not take your rights as seriously as would a California court.
Employers can cite several factors suggesting that arbitration is a fair way to resolve employment disputes: Arbitration has been widely used to resolve disputes in unionized workforces for more than 70 years. Arbitration is often faster than litigation. Employees may not realize that litigation often takes years.
VALid ArbitrAtion AGreement Under the MUAA, written arbitration agreements are valid, enforceable, and irrevocable, except where there are grounds at law or in equity for the revocation of a contract (Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud.
Many experts have concluded that employees who arbitrate their claims obtain results that, on average, are as good or better than the results obtained by employees who litigate.
In such cases, arbitration will almost always favor the defendant employer. Nearly every attorney who represents working people in employment cases will agree that arbitration agreements are not the best choice for employee plaintiffs.