Employee’s handwritten signature makes arbitration agreement easier to enforce
Many California employers ask incoming and existing employees to agree in advance to arbitrate any employment-related disputes and give up the right to bring such claims in court. Employees often are asked to “sign” these arbitration agreements electronically, which is administratively easier than having the employee sign it in their handwriting.
Last month in Iyere v. Wise Auto Group, the California Court of Appeal compelled three former Wise Auto employees to arbitrate their wrongful termination and 24 other employment-related claims against the company largely because each employee had signed the binding arbitration agreement in their own handwriting.
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