unicorndeburghFeb 22, 2023

This is HUGE.

"The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that employers can no longer demand laid-off employees avoid publicly disparaging the company as part of their severance agreements, nor can they stop affected employees from disclosing the terms of their exit packages. Doing so, the federal agency determined, would be a violation of the laid-off employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7a7x/companies-cant-ask-you-to-shut-up-to-receive-severance-nlrb-rules

Companies Can’t Ask You to Shut up to Receive Severance, NLRB Rules

The board reverses two previous decisions that held that such severance agreements were lawful. Limits on free speech have become increasingly common aspect of many severance agreements.

Show threadaburtchAug 8, 2023
@unicorndeburgh @_L1vY_ Is this retroactive? I’ve had to sign multiple agreements like this.
Show threadBlitzen

@aburtch @unicorndeburgh @_L1vY_ ianal, but it was explained to me by a labor law smarty that such clauses are now unenforceable, whether signed today or in the misty past

Please confirm before taking action!

Aug 8, 2023 at 2:26amTusky