Chuck DarwinNon-Disparagement Clauses Are Retroactively Voided, NLRB’s Top Counsel Clarifies
The general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board issued a clarifying memo on Wednesday regarding the “scope” of a February ruling by the federal agency’s board that said employers #cannot include blanket #non-#disparagement #clauses in their severance packages, nor demand laid-off employees keep secret the terms of their #exit #agreements.
Such provisions have become increasingly common in recent years, muzzling employees and otherwise stopping them from speaking up about working conditions by dangling a few weeks or months of pay in front of them at the exact moment they are losing their job.
