Volunteer must arbitrate wage claim
Matthew Leonard worked at a concession stand owned and operated by a for-profit company during a baseball game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Although he believed he was serving as a volunteer to raise money for Washington University, he later concluded that he should have been compensated as an employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act and Missouri’s minimum wage laws. When he sought to bring suit as a collective action on behalf of himself and other volunteers, the concessionaire moved to compel arbitration under the provisions of a Volunteer Release, Waiver and Indemnification Agreement that he had signed prior to his service. A federal District Court has agreed and sent the case to...
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