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Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee announced that it had advanced the Protecting Older Americans Act, which would invalidate forced arbitration clauses requiring employees to arbitrate age discrimination claims, whether for disparate treatment, disparate impact, harassment, or retaliation.
15 Senators voted in favor and 6 against.
The legislation, introduced in both houses of Congress last June, had bipartisan support then and continues to appeal to members of Congress on both sides of the aisle.
However, Law360’s Grace Elletson reports that one of the six “nays,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, voted against the measure because he believes that arbitration is