Mastec, Inc. is an American multinational infrastructure engineering and construction company based in Coral Gables, Florida. Its customers are primarily in the utility, communications and government industries. The company’s core services are the engineering, building, installing, maintaining and upgrading of infrastructures.
the Superior Court has upheld an employee’s agreement to arbitrate all disputes as well as his waiver of the right to bring an action on behalf of a class of employees. A short while after beginning employment with MasTec, the employee signed off on its Dispute Resolution Procedure (“DRP”). The DRP required that all disputes arising out of or related to the employee’s employment with or termination of employment from the company be submitted to final and binding arbitration, i.e. the employee could not bring a lawsuit in court. In addition to waiving his right to file a lawsuit, the employee waived his right to bring a class action in arbitration. The employee had the ability to opt out of the DRP by submitting a form to the company within 30 days of the receipt of the DRP, but he did not exercise that option. –Neary v. MasTec North America, Inc.(Mass. Super. May 10, 2016)