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Chipotle Faces Mass Influx of Arbitration Cases

Posted by: Chelsea Bennett on Dec 20, 2018

More than 150 Chipotle employees who were expelled from a collective action lawsuit have requested arbitration with the company, Huffington Post reports. Last May, a Supreme Court ruling confirmed that it was legal for employers to require workers to sign arbitration agreements as a condition of employment. At the time of the ruling, Chipotle was in the middle of a collective action lawsuit involving an estimated 10,000 employees, both former and current. The workers were represented by Kent Williams. Due to the Supreme Court ruling, the judge in the case was compelled to expel 3,000 employees who had signed arbitration agreements. Williams and his team agreed to pursue arbitration on any worker who was expelled from the lawsuit. Chipotle is now facing logistical challenges and high costs dealing with the high number of arbitration claims because each claim has to be heard in the county where each worker was last employed by the company. Chipotle has yet to pay its share of the arbitration filing fee, $1,100 per case.