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Relationship between collective agreement/arbitration and law

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1 Relationship between collective agreement/arbitration and law

2 Alexander v. Gardner-Denver
Voluntary filing of a grievance under a CBK alleging discrimination does not foreclose employee from filing suit under Title VII ee must meet jurisdictional requirements CBK does not waive an employee’s statutory rights arbitration and EEOC/courts different forums with different authority arb - interpret CBK EEOC - enforce Title VII

3 Waiver of Statutory Rights?
MUST an employee use the (grievance and) arbitration procedure? Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corp., Sup. Ct., 1991 brokerage firm employee who had agreed to arbitrate any employment controversy required to arbitrate age discrimination claim agreement to arbitrate a waiver of right to sue

4 Waiver of Statutory Rights? (cont.)
Wright v. Universal Maritime Service Corp, U.S.Supreme Court, 1998 Is there a conflict between Gardner-Denver (ee covered by a CBA may go to court on statutory claim regardless of outcome of grievance procedure) Gilmer (ee may waive statutory right to file if ee agrees to submit dispute to arb)

5 Wright (continued) Incorporation of statutory law in CBK does alter fact that this a statutory claim, not a claim under CBK Presumption of arbitrability only extends to those issues which can be decided better by arbitrators than by courts - issues under CBK, not a federal statute Waiver of statutory rights must be “clear and unmistakable; must be “explicitly stated” in CBK Court unwilling to infer a Gilmer-like individual waiver of statutory rights from a collective agreement No explicit incorporation in agreement of ADA, as there was with OSHA


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