Severance Pay, Non-Disclosure Agreement

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

Burns & Levinson LLP on 3/14/2023

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

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

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC on 2/27/2023

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

NLRB Changes the Game for Confidentiality Provisions in Severance Agreements

Holland & Hart - Employers' Lawyers on 2/24/2023

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

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

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 3/12/2021

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

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

Foley Hoag LLP on 2/10/2016

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

Severance Pay › Non-Disclosure Agreement

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

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

NLRB Changes the Game for Confidentiality Provisions in Severance Agreements

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

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

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