Governor Brown has been busy in the last year of his term signing and vetoing many employment-related bills. We are pleased to report that he vetoed California Assembly Bill 3080 (AB 3080). AB 3080 sought to amend the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) and the California Labor Code making it an unlawful employment practice to require an applicant, employee, or independent contractor to agree in any contract entered into, modified, or extended on or after January 1, 2019 to arbitrate claims arising under FEHA or the Labor Code. AB 3080, if signed into law, would have prohibited, penalized, and criminalized (under Labor Code § 433) most employment arbitration agreements in California.