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Lawyers, advocates seek to ban mandatory pre-dispute waivers that strip Massachusetts workers’ rights
Summary
Employment-law advocates and a past-president of the Massachusetts Employment Lawyers Association urged the committee to back S.1335/H.2114 to prohibit mandatory pre-dispute waivers that require workers to waive state-law protections as a condition of employment.
Employment-law advocates urged the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development to pass legislation banning pre-dispute waivers that require employees to waive Massachusetts statutory protections as a condition of hire.
Philip Gordon, past president of the Massachusetts Employment Lawyers Association, said employers sometimes require new hires to accept contracts that…
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