{"id":5749,"date":"2021-08-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5749"},"modified":"2021-08-03T09:09:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:09:41","slug":"consideration-for-arbitration-agreement-and-delegation-clause-was-illusory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5749","title":{"rendered":"Consideration for Arbitration Agreement and Delegation Clause Was Illusory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Telissah Johnson of Kansas City, Missouri sued her former employer, Menard Inc., alleging employment discrimination. Menard argued that she had signed an arbitration agreement in her Employee\/Employer Agreement, which, if upheld, would have moved the claims out of state court and into arbitration instead. However, both the circuit court and Missouri Court of Appeals agreed that this arbitration agreement is unenforceable because of Menard\u2019s \u201cunilateral authority to modify the delegation clause without limit or notice to [employee] rendered [employer]\u2019s promises illusory, and \u2018[s]uch illusory promises provide no valid consideration.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/menards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/menards-1024x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5750\" width=\"259\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/menards-1024x381.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/menards-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/menards-768x286.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/menards.jpg 1344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=179018\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Telissah Johnson vs. Menard, Inc.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District &#8211; WD84138<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">If you would like to speak to an attorney about dispute resolution or being sued, call our law office at 816-524-4949 or visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"hoorfarlaw.com\">hoorfarlaw.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telissah Johnson of Kansas City, Missouri sued her former employer, Menard Inc., alleging employment discrimination. Menard argued that she had signed an arbitration agreement in her Employee\/Employer Agreement, which, if upheld, would have moved the claims out of state court &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5749\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5749"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5767,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749\/revisions\/5767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}