Lauren Weber
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740 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2017
last heard Dec 2024
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But often they rely on getting class action status because for many lawyers, it's not worth it to file a case on behalf of someone who may be owed a few hundred dollars or even a few thousand dollars.
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However, the Supreme Court just last month ruled in favor of employers that
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that they can enforce something called class action waivers, arbitration agreements with class action waivers.
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Arbitration clauses, which are often included in an employment agreement, say that workers have to bring grievances through an arbitration process, which tends to be private, rather than through the public court system.
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Many employers have added these class action waivers to it, which say that these cases or any kind of grievance must be brought individually.
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Well, many lawyers won't take a case like this that will, like I said, only involve a nominal amount of money.
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So everyone I spoke to on every side of the ideological divide on this issue agreed that we will see far fewer of these wage theft cases.
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Thanks for having me.
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That's right.
Employers have a lot of job openings, and that's a good thing for America's workers.
On the other hand, for both workers and employers, we have to make sure that there are the right matches between the jobs that are available and the workers who are looking for jobs.
That has become an issue as we move into a more and more digital economy.
It's true.
And one problem that came during the recession in terms of the way employers thought about their job openings was they could afford to be very, very picky.
As a result, you found a lot of employers started asking for a college degree for jobs that didn't really require one, or they started weeding people out by looking for people who had industry experience.
Unfortunately, they haven't taken out a lot of those same requirements.
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partly what needs to happen is that if employers really want to fill their jobs, they have to look again at those job descriptions they might have written a few years ago and think about whether or not the things that they're asking candidates to bring to the table are really requirements.
That's right.
Although I think saying relaxing requirements suggests they might be lowering their standards.
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