In a new decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit announced a standard for when an employee has waived her rights to judicial remedies and sent the plaintiff’s.
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Shannon Zoller sued her former employer, GCA Advisors LLC, for violations of the Equal Pay Act, California’s Fair Pay Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1871, among other alleged violations. GCA moved to compel arbitration pursuant to the arbitration agreements contained in various documents that Zoller signed when she began her employment, but the district court denied the motion, finding that the “knowing waiver” doctrine applied to Zoller’s statutory claims and that she had not knowingly waived her right to bring her claims in a judicial forum.
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9th Circ. Sends GCA Banker s Bias, Pay Case To Arbitration
Law360 (April 15, 2021, 5:35 PM EDT) A former investment banker for global investment bank GCA Advisors will have to hash out her gender bias and unequal pay claims in arbitration, the Ninth Circuit ruled, finding the worker had knowingly waived her right to bring these claims in court.
The panel said in a published decision on Wednesday that Shannon Zoller, a former corporate attorney who became an investment banker with GCA in 2014, clearly agreed to arbitrate employment disputes when she signed on with the company.
The pacts she inked her employment contract and an arbitration agreement both included explicit language regarding employment disputes so.