In a case addressing the scope of the Federal Arbitration Act’s transportation worker exemption, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled April 12 that a transportation worker does not have to work in the transportation industry to be exempt from an arbitration agreement. The unanimous ruling in Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries clarifies that the exemption’s applicability depends on the nature of the worker’s work rather than the nature of the employer’s business.
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