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Employers can't force you to keep quiet to get severance, labor board decides
- tharne 4y agoCan we get rid of those damned binding arbitration clauses next? I still can't believe (U.S.) employers are allowed to use coercion to take away an employees right to the court system.
- dredmorbius 4y agoSubstantial discussion yesterday: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34890024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34890024>
- luxuryballs 4y agodang I just refused to sign one of these and gave up severance pay just for this very reason
- techdragon 4y ago“Just” may be soon enough to be worth a chat with a lawyer. Legally unenforceable contract might be retrospectively invalid… or the company might just cough up to avoid hassle depending on the payment size.
- luxuryballs 4y agoyeah I dunno, they didn’t need to offer anything technically, I would feel too unprofessional giving them trouble tbh, call it a personality flaw but I only want to provide value and get paid, it’s just a bummer that the legal system makes them have to treat employment like a liability instead of a mutual relationship between gentlemen
- more_corn 4y agoI’d be on the phone to my lawyer
- msarrel 4y agoWhen I have left previous jobs, I feel as if the severance was given in exchange for signing something saying I would never tell anyone of the horrors inside the company. This leads me to believe that within a few years we'll see that there will be no more severance.