D. R. Horton, Inc. is a home construction company incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Arlington, Texas. In 2017, the company was the largest
Employees in D.R. Horton, Inc., who were not represented by a union, were required to sign a “Mutual Arbitration Agreement” (“MAA”). The MAA provided that all employment-related disputes be resolved through individual arbitration and that the right to resort to a judicial forum was waived. In other words, employees could not pursue class or collective litigation of such claims in any forum — arbitral or judicial. The MAA said that: all disputes and claims relating to the employee’s employment with the company (with some exceptions) would be determined exclusively by final and binding arbitration. -D.R. Horton v. National Labor Relations Board (2013)