alt Hacker NewsYeah, clearly the employee and the company have the same leverage in negotiation here.
It's a free market! If she didn't like the offer, she could've just gotten herself fired from some other company instead. /s
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prepend • yesterday at 7:22 PM
She was privileged to even get a severance. Most people just get fired.
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margalabargala • yesterday at 6:20 PM
Different entities having different amounts of leverage in a negotiation is neither unusual nor inherently immoral.
If someone gives you the option to accept $ to sign a contract agreeing not talk about something that is legal but morally bad, and you say yes, then talk about the thing, you will correctly be losing the lawsuit, no matter how bad the thing is.
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charcircuit • yesterday at 6:56 PM
She can just reject the offer. Nothing can compel you to sign a contract you don't want to.
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The company offers you money in exchange for signing certain agreements. You are free to decline. There is no obligation on either side.
If non disparagement clauses were illegal then perhaps the severance amounts would be smaller since there’s now much less value to the company.