Courts routinely enforce arbitration agreements in a wide variety of disputes. But this common practice recently took a new turn when the California Court of Appeal for the First District struck an employer’s arbitration agreement as void on “unconscionable” grounds.

Sexual harassment includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature which explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment. Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.