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Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow Bolder
- bsg75 10y agoDoes anyone here have any real knowledge how enforceable such non-disparagement clauses are, especially when the layoff base is large?
- paulddraper 10y agoI would imagine non-disparagement would challenging to hold up, and even less likely to be even tried. But...the possibility that they could be used to cause grief is probably enough for most people. A more decisive legal benefit, I think, is release of claims. If a employee takes severance, releases claims, then comes back around with claims, it's a real hit to credibility. In this scenario, the company is the defendant.
- fred_is_fred 10y agoIn the American legal system it can be as simple as the company has lawyers on payroll and you don't. They can afford financially (perhaps not from a PR standpoint) to sue you and you'd have to settle likely just on the basis of legal expenses.
- JaggedJax 10y agoWould anti-SLAPP laws be able to protect these former workers, or would those not apply since they have signed non-disparagement documents.