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Your Company’s Current Severance Agreement for Non-supervisory Employees Might Be Illegal – What To Do Next.

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If your company, like many, includes “standard” confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions in its employee severance agreements, those agreements may contravene a recent NLRB decision, McLaren Macomb. In that matter,...more

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NLRB Finds that Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement Clauses in Severance Agreements May Violate Employees’ Rights

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On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (the Board) issued a decision that reversed the precedent established during the Trump administration and held that severance agreements that include non-disparagement...more

Holland & Hart - Employers' Lawyers

NLRB Changes the Game for Confidentiality Provisions in Severance Agreements

This week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or “Board”) issued a decision that could significantly shape the terms of severance agreements with departing employees. Under this decision, all employers are prohibited...more

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New Jersey General Assembly To Vote On Renewed Bill Seeking To Curb Restrictive Covenants

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New Jersey may be next up to join the growing number of states that significantly restrict the use of non-competition agreements in employment. As we discussed back in December 2017, a bill proposed in New Jersey at the...more

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SJC Finds that Employee’s Unauthorized Copying of Proprietary Information Did Not Give Employer Grounds to Discontinue Severance

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On February 4, 2016, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) held in Eventmonitor, Inc. v. Leness that an employer breached its agreement with a former employee when it reclassified the employee’s termination from...more

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