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It depends on when you signed the non-disparagement agreement. > The decision involved severance agreements offered to furloughed employees that prohibited the
by shagie 4y ago
It depends on when you signed the non-disparagement agreement.
> The decision involved severance agreements offered to furloughed employees that prohibited them from making statements that could disparage the employer and from disclosing the terms of the agreement itself.
Was the agreement part of getting hired? or getting laid off?
That said, I suspect that this will result in a reduction of severance agreements since there is very little that the company can gain out of a severance agreement now (I am assuming this also extends to various "you can't sue the company for wrongful termination" and similar).
- kayodelycaon 4y agoA lot of severance stuff is questionably enforceable. Discrimination lawsuits can still be successfully brought under a number of circumstances. You can’t just put a clause in it. This is especially true if the employee is laid off and forced to sign immediately.
- banannaise 4y ago> That said, I suspect that this will result in a reduction of severance agreements since there is very little that the company can gain out of a severance agreement now (I am assuming this also extends to various "you can't sue the company for wrongful termination" and similar). This wasn't the case from the establishment of the original precedent until 2020 when that ruling was reversed. We're simply going back to a state that has existed for decades, and in which severance agreements were by no means rare.