Arbitration - Part 2
Jamie Leigh Jones, 26, is one of several women who worked for KBR and former parent Halliburton Co. who say they were sexually assaulted or harassed while working for the companies in Iraq. Jones says she was raped in 2005 while working for KBR at Camp Hope, Baghdad. …
Juan A. Lozano for Associated Press, Houston Texas, June 20, 2011
When the criminal courts failed to act, her lawyers filed a civil suit, only to be met with Halliburton’s response that all her claims were to be decided in arbitration – because she’d signed away her rights to bring the company to court when she signed her employment contract. … You’ve probably done the very same thing without even knowing it. … It’s taken Jones nearly six years and a hearing in the US Senate to force her employer, Halliburton into open court.
Laura Flanders for the Guardian, June 27, 2011
See also: Arbitration - Part 1
2011.7.08.Fri.1200 | Tags: law enforcement
