Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow Bolder
11th June 2016
American corporations are under new scrutiny from federal lawmakers after well-publicized episodes in which the companies laid off American workers and gave the jobs to foreigners on temporary visas.
But while corporate executives have been outspoken in defending their labor practices before Congress and the public, the American workers who lost jobs to global outsourcing companies have been largely silent.
Until recently. Now some of the workers who were displaced are starting to speak out, despite severance agreements prohibiting them from criticizing their former employers.
Such agreements are almost universal — sign and get money, don’t and walk bare. If you don’t sign, they know you’re going to sue, so they have notice.