Employees agreeing to resolve disputes through binding arbitration may be giving up important rights and, as one recent study has found, may be less likely to receive compensation for their injuries.

It has become standard practice for employers to require that prospective employees sign a pre-employment agreement as a condition of accepting a job.

Too often employees come to me with a dilemma. They lost their jobs, accepted a modest one-or-two month severances and now have job offers from companies in competition with their former employers.