Section 12 Payment of Arbitrators? Fees

• Library: Employment Discrimination 2008

Courts have held that a valid arbitration agreement cannot charge the employee for the fees and expenses of the arbitrator because the employee otherwise would have a right to have the discrimination claims resolved by a judge at no cost to the employee. Cole v. Burns Int’l Sec. Servs., 105 F.3d 1465, 1487 (D.C. Cir. 1997); accordRosenberg v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., 170 F.3d 1, 16
(1^st Cir. 1999) (award of unreasonable arbitral fees against the complainant “could be presented by the...