Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up, NAA CORNER—NAA announces partnership with Wolters Kluwer to publish in-depth arbitration-related articles, (Jul 8, 2025)

By Joshua M. Javits

In upcoming articles, NAA arbitrators will address issues stemming from cases its members hear and decide, such as social media, zero tolerance policies, drug and alcohol testing, attendance, off-duty misconduct, monitoring of employees, and healthcare.

Founded in 1947, the National Academy of Arbitrators (NAA) is the leading professional organization of arbitrators in the United States and Canada. Its members are chosen by parties to hear and decide thousands of labor and employment arbitration cases each year in private industry, the public sector, and non-profits. We are proud to partner with employers, unions, and employees to deliver timely, cost-effective resolutions to workplace disputes.

As the President of the National Academy of Arbitrators, I am excited to announce our partnership with Wolters Kluwer to publish in-depth articles in The Labor Law Journal and twice monthly short topical articles in Labor & Employment Law Daily on labor, employment, and dispute resolution.

Articles will be written by NAA arbitrators discussing timely issues in the economic sectors in which our members are actively resolving disputes, including manufacturing, transportation, entertainment, hospitality, sports, services, and Federal, State, and local government.

We will address issues stemming from the cases our members hear and decide, such as social media, zero tolerance policies, drug and alcohol testing, attendance, off-duty misconduct, monitoring of employees, and healthcare. Recently, the NAA has given considerable attention to the accelerating expansion of artificial intelligence in our economy; we hope to write about the practical and ethical issues of AI use by neutrals as well as advocates. As new issues arise, we expect to provide insight about the value and impact of arbitration in those areas.

In a world of global economic and technological change, dispute resolution approaches are also adapting, including increased use of mediation-arbitration, facilitation, and other hybrid forms of dispute resolution. We will provide topical advice about ADR for the advocates who practice in this area.

The NAA website (https://naarb.org) is a terrific resource for practitioners and includes numerous videos of dispute resolution (including a fascinating interview with George Mitchell on the Northern Ireland peace process), NAA amicus briefs, the due process protocol, in depth foundational articles from NAA’s most eminent arbitrators since our founding (the Proceedings), arbitration training materials, and much, much more.

The NAA’s Regions hold meetings where advocates and arbitrators meet informally to discuss current and local issues. NAA committees address important issues such as arbitrator ethics, amicus briefs, AI, and the federal sector.

The NAA is committed to developing new arbitrators and has active “Salons” for doing so in many Regions. The Academy is also committed to promoting the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to cultivate an organizational culture that mirrors and aptly responds to the needs of the communities to be served.

The NAA supports research and training in the field of labor and employment dispute resolution in the United States, Canada, and abroad through grants from the NAA’s Research and Education Foundation (REF), a 501(c)(3) organization. Links to the articles and videos produced are on the REF History of Grants, https://naarb.org/projects/. Recent grants include:

• a grant to the NAA to conduct a Becoming a Labor Arbitrator program taught by NAA members;

• a grant to publish a Comparative Analysis of Employment Arbitration and Employment Litigation to guide future legislation;

• a grant to compile a survey of NAA members’ views on common issues in arbitration for inclusion in the next edition of Elkouri & Elkouri, How Arbitration Works; and

• a grant to the NAA Artificial Intelligence Task Force to survey NAA members on their use of AI in arbitration and mediation to plan future training and resources.

Advocates are more than welcome at our annual meetings. The 2026 NAA Annual Meeting will be held in accessible and exciting Chicago on May 20-24, 2026, and will include a certificate track for advocates who attend tailored learning sessions.

We look forward to sharing with Wolters Kluwer subscribers the expertise, analysis, and experience of our members in addressing these and other issues. We also welcome your feedback and questions. Our goal is to improve the practice of arbitration and its value to the modern workplace. We invite anyone with questions to use the website contact link for the quickest response.

Sincerely,

Joshua M. Javits

President

National Academy of Arbitrators

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