Many legal jurisdictions declare that you cannot be coerced into signing away various rights by altering the legal code to remove your ability to do so. For example, California passed SB 707 shortly after Doordash was told by a judge to pay up on their overdue and unpaid $10mil of mandatory arbitration fees back in 2019:
Here's a couple of relevant paragraphs of the amended laws:
> In California, private contracts that violate public policy are unenforceable. Under Section 3513 of the Civil Code, contract terms that require a party to forgo unwaivable statutory rights are unenforceable. Similarly, Section 1668 of the Civil Code provides that contracts exempting parties from responsibility of their own violation of law are also unenforceable. Thus, under these and other contract defenses of general applicability, a mandatory arbitration agreement, like any other agreement, cannot undercut unwaivable state statutory rights by, for example, reducing the limitations period to commence an action or arbitration, eliminating certain statutory remedies, or erecting excessive cost barriers to obtaining them.
> In an employment or consumer arbitration that requires, either expressly or through application of state or federal law or the rules of the arbitration provider, that the drafting party pay certain fees and costs during the pendency of an arbitration proceeding, if the fees or costs required to continue the arbitration proceeding are not paid within 30 days after the due date, the drafting party is in material breach of the arbitration agreement, is in default of the arbitration, and waives its right to compel the employee or consumer to proceed with that arbitration as a result of the material breach.
(I am not your lawyer, social media comments are no substitute for legal counsel, etc.)
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Here's a couple of relevant paragraphs of the amended laws:
> In California, private contracts that violate public policy are unenforceable. Under Section 3513 of the Civil Code, contract terms that require a party to forgo unwaivable statutory rights are unenforceable. Similarly, Section 1668 of the Civil Code provides that contracts exempting parties from responsibility of their own violation of law are also unenforceable. Thus, under these and other contract defenses of general applicability, a mandatory arbitration agreement, like any other agreement, cannot undercut unwaivable state statutory rights by, for example, reducing the limitations period to commence an action or arbitration, eliminating certain statutory remedies, or erecting excessive cost barriers to obtaining them.
> In an employment or consumer arbitration that requires, either expressly or through application of state or federal law or the rules of the arbitration provider, that the drafting party pay certain fees and costs during the pendency of an arbitration proceeding, if the fees or costs required to continue the arbitration proceeding are not paid within 30 days after the due date, the drafting party is in material breach of the arbitration agreement, is in default of the arbitration, and waives its right to compel the employee or consumer to proceed with that arbitration as a result of the material breach.
(I am not your lawyer, social media comments are no substitute for legal counsel, etc.)