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How to Address Applicants' Noncompetes During the Hiring Process

Imagine this: You are filling a senior level position. You review hundreds of resumes, conduct dozens of screening interviews, and coordinate final interviews of the top candidates. After selecting the company’s top choice,...more

Frantz Ward LLP

Not-So-Friendly Reminders from the NLRB to Review Your Severance Agreements and Employee Handbooks

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Recent decisions and settlements from the National Labor Relations Board should serve as a not-so-friendly reminder to ensure that your severance agreements and employee handbooks do not run afoul of the National Labor...more

Sands Anderson PC

NLRB’s McLaren Macomb Decision and the Future of Employee Severance Agreements

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Severance agreements have long been utilized as a valuable tool for providing employers with protections from the post-employment conduct or claims of former employees. Severance agreements often include a wide range of...more

Stoel Rives - World of Employment

NLRB Returns to Longstanding Position Limiting Use of Confidentiality, Non-Disclosure, and Non-Disparagement Clauses in Employee...

The General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Jennifer A. Abruzzo, issued guidance on March 22, 2023, about the NLRB’s McLaren Macomb, 372 NLRB No. 58, decision from February 21, 2023, which reinstated a...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

NLRB General Counsel Issues Guidance on Severance Agreement Restrictions following McLaren Macomb

On March 22, 2023, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued Memorandum GC 23-05 (the “Memorandum”) offering guidance to Regional Directors for interpreting the National Labor Relations Board’s (the “NLRB” and the “Board”)...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

NLRB Questions Confidentiality and Nondisparagement Provisions in Separation Agreements

Employers terminating employees frequently offer severance payments in exchange for the employees’ entry into a separation agreement.  Generally these separation agreements include a release of claims along with other...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

The End Of An Era, Separation Agreements In The Wake Of Mclaren Macomb: What Employers Need To Know

The National Labor Relations Board’s (the “Board”) decision in McLaren Macomb, significantly changes what employers are allowed to include in a departing employees’ severance/separation agreements or packages.  The Board’s...more

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Severance Agreements – Federal Implications

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In the last article, we covered an Iowa Court of Appeals case relating to severance/separation agreements and whistleblower claims. Other issues have cropped up regarding severance agreements and their enforceability but on...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Employers Beware: The NLRB Limits Severance Agreements

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) is making waves yet again. This time the NLRB has held that certain confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses in severance agreements violate Section 7 rights under the...more

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The NLRB Issues a Decision Impacting Non-disparagement and Confidentiality Provisions in Severance Agreements

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently indicated that when drafting severance or general release agreements, employers have to rethink how they use standard non-disparagement and confidentiality clauses. On...more

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NLRB Narrows Permissible Terms in Severance Agreements

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The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) has ruled that that including certain non-disparagement and confidentiality provisions in severance agreements violates the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”). In McLaren...more

Fenwick & West LLP

NLRB Holds that Severance Agreement with Broad Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement Covenants Violates the NLRA

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On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) held that including broad confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses in severance agreements violates the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)...more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

Protecting a Manufacturer’s Competitive Advantage: Recent Developments in Post-Employment Restrictions

I have posted a few times here about using post-employment restrictions to preserve a manufacturer’s competitive advantage.  See  “Non-Compete Cautionary Tale” (Nov, 2, 2018); “I’m New – And It’s No [Trade] Secret” (Oct. 27,...more

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