A Tuesday ruling from the National Labor Relations Board banned the practice of including non-disparagement agreements in severance packages for employees, overturning a 2020 rule and marking a major shift for the rights for laid-off American workers.
Full article below. Let's all now expose XOM!
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/severance-packages-silence-workers-nlrb-rules-17799428.php
@wvk Which is total BS and likely violates the 1st Amendment.
It is truly bizarre that we live in a time when someone who I no longer work for thinks they can control what I say. If you don’t want me to tell people the place of work is toxic….then make the place of work less toxic. Don’t try to hush me up with some silly gag-order.
@OP Those gag-orders were largely unenforceable anyway. The few instances I know of where the employer (typically a small-business) tried to enforce one, the presiding judge threw it out of court.
Same goes for non-compete clauses; they’re almost always unenforceable, and the FTC is on the verge of banning them anyway, as many states already have.
Well we don’t layoff. We PIP so it’s not applicable.
A non-disparagement clause simply states that you won’t say anything negative about the company or its products, services, or leaders—in any form of communication. Non-disparagement clauses try to prevent employees from doing anything from telling a friend that the boss is a jerk to posting a scathing take-down of the business as a whole on Twitter to giving interviews to journalists that shine a negative light on the company.