Ssc Selma Operating Company, LLC, D/b/a Warren Manor Health and Rehabilitation Center, and Savaseniorcare…

Summary

The court held that the employee's retaliatory-discharge claim was subject to the parties' employment-dispute-resolution program and therefore had to be arbitrated. Although the claim arose from a workers' compensation factual setting, it was a tort claim governed by general tort law rather than a workers' compensation claim excluded by the agreement. Any uncertainty about the arbitration provision's scope also had to be resolved in favor of arbitration.