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Severance Agreement Confidentiality Provisions Under Fire, Employer Surveillance, and a Roadmap for Profanity in the Context of...

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In early 2023, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB or “Board”) decision in McLaren Macomb, 372 NLRB 58, revoked employers’ ability to require their employees to keep the terms of severance packages confidential and to...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

Broad Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement Provisions in Release Agreements Subject to NLRB Scrutiny

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On February 21, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued an opinion with significant implications for confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions in employers’ severance and release agreements with departing...more

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Employee Need Not Give Severance Back Before Moving Forward

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An employee signs a separation agreement and receives severance pay. The employee then has second thoughts, alleges she was coerced into signing the agreement, and wants to pursue her discrimination claims in court. Must the...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Tender Me This: Sixth Circuit Holds Employees Don’t Have to Give Severance Money Back before Filing Title VII or EPA Lawsuit

In a decision that could have employers rethinking how they offer employees a severance agreement, in McClellan v. Midwest Machining, Inc. the Sixth Circuit held that former employees seeking to void severance agreements do...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Another Severance Agreement Bites the Dust: EEOC Continues Its Campaign against Provisions that Preclude Talking to the Government

Ever wonder why the severance agreement that I (or your other favorite employment lawyer) send you says “nothing in this Agreement prevents Employee from filing a charge with the EEOC” (or words to that effect)? I mean, isn’t...more

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Getting Releases Right

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There are times when it makes sense to resolve an actual or potential employment law claim by paying something and getting a release from the employee. Paying severance in return for a release and waiver of claims isn’t...more

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How to Avoid Being the Next Casualty in the EEOC’s War on Employee Separation Agreements

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In its current Strategic Enforcement Plan, the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says that it is fed up with and will target employer “policies and practices that discourage or prohibit individuals from exercising...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Employment Flash (June 2014)

In This Issue: - NLRB Recess Appointments Unconstitutional - SEC Brings First-Ever Employment Retaliation Claim - EEOC Challenges Employer Severance Agreements - New York State Transportation Industry...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Employment Alert

In This Issue: EEOC's Latest Target - Severance Agreements; Pennsylvania's Unemployment Compensation Law May Require Employers to Provide Response to Unemployment Information Requests; and Supreme Court Clarifies that...more

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Trinity Health Corporation Agrees to Settle EEOC Retaliation Lawsuit

Company Had Policy of Delaying or Denying Severance Payments to Employees Who Signed Severance Agreements and Then Filed Discrimination Charges, Agency Says - INDIANAPOLIS - Trinity Health Corporation, a national...more

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