QUESTION 1 2 points Save Answer Arbitration: A. Is a formal and trial-like method of Alternative Dispute Resolution popular among businesses. B. Began as a voluntary process between labor and management in the early 1900s, but has become a mandatory process in many employment contracts today. C. Has received U.S. Supreme Court approval as a proper forum for the resolution of statutory rights violations. D. All of the choices above. QUESTION 2 2 points Save Answer The Federal Arbitration Act of 1925 (FAA) encouraged the use of voluntary arbitration agreements. The FAA contains a provision that makes arbitration agreements that are part of a written contract enforceable unless the contract itself is invalid. Which statement below is true? A. If the contract containing the arbitration provision is valid, that arbitration provision will be enforced by courts. B. The language favoring arbitration agreements in contracts helped create the use of mandatory arbitration provisions by businesses today. c. Decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in cases like Gilmer v. Interstate Johnson Lane Corp. (1991) relied on the FAA's language supporting arbitration provisions in contracts to uphold the use of mandatory arbitration agreements to resolve a violation of a right provided by statutory law (in Gilmer the right involved protections against age discrimination). D. All of the above choices. QUESTION 3 2 points Save Answer Critics of Arbitration believe: A. Arbitrators are neutral and their rulings are not biased in favor of businesses. B. Appealing the decision of an arbitrator is easily accomplished in the court system. C. Making employee's statutory rights subject to arbitration rather than allowing a judicial resolution (in court) is an injustice. D. None of the above choices. QUESTION 4 2 points Save Answer By law, the employee and employer must consent to the selection of the arbitrator, but in practice, the employer has a distinct advantage because they know of and may have had experience working with various arbitrators from the American Arbitration Association. A. True B. False