Arbitrator Diversity Lacking as Employers Push to Use Them (1)

Alternative dispute resolution service providers are working to increase gender and racial diversity within their rosters at a time when more and more companies are moving employment disputes into arbitration.

About 80% of American private-sector, nonunion workers will be required to use arbitration to settle disputes by 2024, according to a 2019 report from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Popular Democracy.

With companies increasingly using employment contracts to bind workers to resolve employment disputes outside of court, there should be more urgency to have those claims heard by arbitrators who reflect the diverse backgrounds and life ...