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Monday, July 11, 2016

Arbitration of Fox News' Anchor's Sex Harassment Claim?

"Lawyers for the Fox News chairman Roger Ailes filed a motion on Friday arguing that the sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him by a former anchor, Gretchen Carlson, should be moved from" court to arbitration, the New York Times reports.  “Gretchen Carlson had an arbitration clause in her contract, stating that any employment dispute regarding her employment at Fox News must be done via confidential arbitration,” Barry Asen, Mr. Ailes’s lawyer, said in a statement.

NYTimes discusses relationship between confidentiality and employment arbitration.