Garrison Law partner Josh Goodbaum was recently quoted in a New Haven Independent article about a local severance agreement dispute involving the use of non-disparagement and non-disclosure clauses.
The article, entitled “Worker-‘Owner’ Won’t Shut Up For Severance,” discusses the concerns of several employees of New Haven’s Artist & Craftsman Supply store after they each received a severance offer that would require them to sign away their right to disparage the company or disclose the terms of the agreement. One employee argued that the offer was unlawful under the decision of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the McLaren Macomb case.
Josh agreed. That decision, he said, “prohibits non-disparagement or non-disclosure clauses in separation agreements [for these non-supervisory workers]. Is that the final word on this subject?,” he added. “Nobody knows yet. The law could be tested in the federal courts.”
You can read the full article here.