FLYER PRINTING COMPANY, INC., Appellant, v. ROBBIN HILL, Appellee., 805 So. 2d 829

Summary

The employee alleged that the employer's management became hostile toward her after she informed it of her pregnancy, and that management retaliated against her for reporting the discrimination. The employer moved to stay the proceeding and to compel arbitration based on an agreement for binding arbitration the employee signed when she first began working at the company. The employer argued that a statutory plaintiff seeking to invalidate an arbitration agreement had to prove that arbitrating would be prohibitively more expensive to her than litigating in court. The appellate court approved the trial court's refusal to enforce the parties' arbitration agreement because it required the employee to bear half the fees and costs associated with the arbitration. In so doing, the agreement contravened the employee's statutory right to seek a full award of her fees and costs under Title VII, 42 U.S.C.S. § 2000e-5(k) and the Florida Civil Rights Act, Fla. Stat. ch. 760.11(5) (2000), thus ...