The recent Supreme Court case in epic systems is the Supreme Court decided that if there are arbitration agreements with employees that employees are then precluded from participating in class actions on employment type of claims. Now everybody’s up in arms about how bad that is for employees and I’ll be the first to agree that if you’re representing employees it’d be nice to have the option of either going to a class action route or going the individual route. But I don’t think the result is as harmful to employees as maybe a lot of people think.

Here’s my take on it, I think in class actions too often you have big class action law firms that are getting rich off the cases but the individual employees that are participating in the class they get pennies on the dollar. Whereas if they are bringing their individual claims, hiring an attorney like me, another attorney with a small firm a solo firm that will take these types of case that attorney is going to be focused solely on that employees damages, that employees losses. And it’s my opinion that the employee actually might have more leverage and get a better result for themselves going one on one with the company than they would as just a faceless name on a class action lawsuit.