James Johnston Employee Quotations

Put yourself in the arbitrator's position. Odds that the plaintiff employee is ever going to need your services again are almost zero. But if you're a large, multistate or multinational corporation, you figure, 'If I give a good ruling on this case, they're going to keep shooting me these cases and I can make a lot of money.' That's a built-in bias in the arbitration procedure.

It also limits their right to discovery, or information-gathering. Probably the biggest problem is that most of them require the cost of the arbitrator be split by the parties. A lot of these arbitrators charge a lot of money. It could be thousands and thousands of dollars. That puts an employee sometimes in a position where they can't afford to arbitrate their claims.

The employee wasn't stealing. Over 10 years, he had opportunities to take thousands and thousands of parts and he never did any of that, and he had no intention of doing that,