employment actions. (5) Forced individual dispute resolution undermines employees’ rights and exacerbates the inequality of bargaining power between employees and employers because joining a joint, class, or collective action is often the only way employees can afford to seek relief for violations of their rights. (6) Employees who are forced to submit to individual dispute resolution often seek no redress at all due to well-founded fear of retaliation. (7) Protecting the rights of employees to individually or concertedly seek relief for violations of their labor rights through the justice system protects the public interest and safeguards commerce from injury. 3. Purposes The purposes of this Act are to— (1) prohibit predispute arbitration agreements that require arbitration of employment disputes