WHAT HEELS!: Since When Is Kidnapping And Rape A Matter For Arbitration?
Jamie Leigh Jones accused firefighters at Camp Hope, Baghdad, of drugging and raping her, then imprisoning her in a shipping container so she wouldn't report the assault, reports The Associated Press. At the time of the alleged sexual assault on July 28, 2005, Jones was a contract worker for KBR Inc., then a subsidiary of Halliburton Co., and had signed papers agreeing to settle disputes with the company through private arbitration. She is suing in federal court, arguing that she never anticipated she would be subjected to a violent crime by her co-workers when she signed her employment papers, but Halliburton and KBR counter she is contractually bound to settle all claims - without exception - through arbitration. In an earlier case with a similar fact pattern, a federal judge in Houston ruled that a female contractor had to settle her case trough arbitration.
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