the FLSA collective action statute); In re Online Travel Co., 953 F.Supp.2d 713, 721-22, 2013 WL 2948086, at *6 (N.D.Tex. June 14, 2013) (finding class action waiver contained in an arbitration provision enforceable). Though arbitration decisions implicate the Federal Arbitration Act’s strong presumption in favor of arbitration, see, e.g., Gilmer, 500 U.S. at 26, 111 S.Ct. 1647, it otherwise makes little sense that an arbitration agreement could take the more drastic step of entirely waiving a federal court forum, including the right to proceed collectively, but an employment contract could not waive the right to proceed collectively in court while preserving the right to bring suit on an individual claim. Cf. Killion v. KeHE Distribs., 885 F.Supp.2d 874, 882-83 (N.D.Ohio 2012) (<HOLDING>). Because the standard for enforcing
holding that a collective action waiver contained in a separation and release agreement was enforceable in an flsa action and noting that the enforceability of a collective waiver does not change outside the arbitration context because arbitration agreements are scrutinized under contract theories and are on equal footing with contracts citations omitted holding that collective bargaining agreements cannot compel the arbitration of statutory rights holding that the eleventh circuits decision in caley v gulfstream aerospace corp was binding on the issue of enforceability of collective action waiver in an arbitration agreement holding that a waiver of right to appeal contained in a plea agreement is enforceable holding class action waiver to be enforceable under section 2 of the faa notwithstanding claim that waiver was unconscionable under state law