What's to keep this non-hire from logging into Glassdoor and warning everyone else (and existing employees) about the offensive contract verbiage? Noth

What's to keep this non-hire from logging into Glassdoor and warning everyone else (and existing employees) about the offensive contract verbiage? Nothing. As long as they remained factual. It's unlikely existing employees would have much response though, they already work at the company and will have accepted those contract terms. Different types of people (ie risk/reward and people coming from different cultures tend to take a different view over contract terms. If that's not legally actionable, then what's the ethics / negotiation cost/ben of that same non-hire implying at the beginning that this would be the eventual recourse if (s)he wasn't hired? I don't think that would have much impact, and in the context of hiring someone it would probably look pretty bad. An assumption in the underlying story is that the contract terms the company wanted were unreasonable. If it's in a company handbook then it's a standard term, so the organisation thinks it's reasonable - it's probably best to try and understand why they want that situation. Assuming right from the get-go that it's something invidious and offering a threat that 'if I don't get my way I'll go public' isn't likely to get a sympathetic hearing in most situations (I think). While it's possible that someone is trying to screw you over, it's generally best to just assume their mistaken and to try and clarify why it's a problem.