{"id":292468,"date":"2026-07-10T17:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292468\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:38:16","slug":"second-circuit-frees-former-nyc-health-workers-from-arbitration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292468\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Circuit Frees Former NYC Health Workers From Arbitration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge incorrectly affirmed an arbitration award to New York City healthcare employees who weren\u2019t bound by a collective bargaining agreement that required mandatory arbitration, an appeals court ruled. <\/p>\n<p>Employees who stopped working at NYC home health agencies prior to the implementation of a mandatory arbitration agreement for wage-related claims are free to pursue their cases in state court, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/1199SEIUUnitedHealthcareWovPSCCommunityServicesDocketNo21006312dC?doc_id=X199LSJHLQE9BKARJ8L1CQ3LMHF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opinion<\/a> issued Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The decision partially vacates a Southern District of New York ruling that confirmed arbitration awards for present and past members of 1199 SEIU United Healthcare &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge incorrectly affirmed an arbitration award to New York City healthcare employees who weren\u2019t bound by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39821,8774,20776,111702,9,56,63,65,64,31077],"class_list":["post-292468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-collective-bargaining-agreements","tag-home-care","tag-intervention","tag-mandatory-arbitration-provisions","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-standing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}