I see your perspective, anyone who thinks that government contractors shouldn't be able to hide under the shield of arbitration agreements is "anti-business."
You also use the term "pro trial lawyer" as if was a dirty word. Trial lawyers are a necessary check on corporate decision makers who exclude ethics and morality in favor of increasing the bottom line. We only need look at the Ford Pinto case to see what would happen if this check wasn't available.
The utility you work for probably has an arbitration requirement. Why is it ok for the public sector and not the private sector?
It's conditional upon employment.
Also, Kaiser, on of Hillary's model HMO's has a arbitration requirement that they use to delay cancer treatments they consider experimental to kill you off.
The issue in question was a rape by "multiple assailants" (nationality unknown) in the Green Zone in Iraq. She signed the agreement as a condition of employment. It has nothing to do the KBR, except they have the deep pockets and that's who the lawyers want to sue.
The principle here is to void the employment contracts of overseas employees who have an "arbitration clause" and allow the lawyers in. Smart companies will respond by avoiding hiring women, or simply exclude sexual assaults from the arbitration clause.
It's simply a bone for the lawyers, one of the Democrat's biggest contributors.
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Chuck, I share Jon's concern as you attempt to defend the indefensible -- a contractor that was advised of sexual harassment, had settled cases of past rapes (and kept it secret through their arbitration agreement) by employees and did nothing to prevent them from reoccurring and when it did reoccur to a victim that was so badly raped that she needed reconstructive surgery, the company destroyed evidence and obstructed justice.
How can anyone defend binding non-disclosure mandatory arbitration in matters of sexual assault? It does not serve the public interest.
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