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Q&A Regarding the NLRB’s Decision on Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement Provisions in Severance Agreements

By Christian White, Todd Dawson, Pat Muldowney, Todd Lebowitz, Paul Rosenberg and Delores Chichi on March 30, 2023 Posted in NLRB

We recently wrote about the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB” or “Board”) decision in McLaren Macomb (the “decision”) which reversed several Trump-era rulings that largely had allowed employers to proffer severance agreements to employees (generally, non-supervisors) containing broad confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions. In response to the widespread uncertainty related to the decision, NLRB General Counsel (“GC”) Abruzzo … Continue Reading

Joint Employer Test Must Consider ‘Reserved or Indirect Control,’ D.C. Circuit Rules

By Todd Lebowitz on August 1, 2022 Posted in NLRB

In 2009, the James Brown compilation album The Godfather’s Smackdown, Live! was released.It’sa two-disc compilation of live shows from 1980. I never saw James Brown live, but I did see James Brown’s Celebrity Hot Tub. On Friday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a different kind of smackdown, chastising the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for ignoring … Continue Reading