Not all companies with arbitration clauses or no-class-action
provisions require employees to sign on. While companies such as
Uber Technologies Inc. require drivers to agree to such contracts
before joining its platform, others give employees a chance to opt
out--although it can take some doing.
Last year, pharmacy chain CVS Health began asking workers to
electronically sign an arbitration clause and class-action waiver
by clicking a button at the bottom of an online agreement. They
were given 30 days to opt out, and to do so, they had to send a
hard copy of a signed and dated letter to a post office box in
Rhode Island.
Some workers have gone online to encourage others to take those
steps.
Karol Mocarski, a CVS employee on Long Island who is leaving the
company this week, is not among that group, but said he signed the
agreement under pressure from managers, and immediately regretted
doing so.
"If I was fired for reasons I think I shouldn't have, I felt
like I couldn't do anything about that," he said. "What if
something happened to me? Would I be able to do anything about
that?"
CVS, which didn't comment on the negative response from some
workers, maintains that its program is voluntary and emphasized
that workers can choose to participate or not.
Lauren Weber
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