POLITICO Morning Shift featured a Management Memo blog post, titled, “NLRB Board Members Signal Intention to Reconsider Board Law on Confidentiality of Settlement Agreements and to Modify the Board’s Blocking Charge “Rule,”” authored by Steven M. Swirsky, a Member of the Firm in the Employment, Labor & Workforce Management and Health Care and Life Sciences practices, in the firm’s New York office.
Following is an excerpt:
An unpublished NLRB decision last month suggests the board could tackle the question of when employers may require confidentiality in employer settlements and severance agreements, attorney Steven Swirsky writes in the National Law Review. The Obama NLRB issued a series of decisions that concluded broad confidentiality agreements restricted the ability of employees to act together regarding their employment situation, Swirsky writes.