While acknowledging that California courts have recognized that arbitration agreements bearing only the employee’s signature without a corresponding signature from the employer can still be valid, the Court found that, in this case, the plain text of the arbitration agreement required a signature from both parties to be effective.
In Pich v. LaserAway, LLC et al, the court affirmed the trial court’s denial of the employer’s motion to compel a former employee’s representative wage-and-hour suit to arbitration because the arbitration agreement in question was signed only by the employee—not the employer. https://natlawreview.com/article/does-arbitration-agreement-require-employers-signature-read-fine-print