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unicorndeburgh Feb 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.

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Georg Krammer Aug 8, 2023

@unicorndeburgh
Wow 🤨 , from an #European perspective, I'm a bit #dumbfounded that such a things needs to be settled while the US seemingly yells "free speech" all the time.
What am I not getting here? 🤔
#helpmeunderstand

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unicorndeburgh

@GeorgKrammer The first amendment to the US constitution protects speech from government restrictions. Very little protects individuals from corporations.