Confidentiality Agreements: Buying silence – do gagging clauses really work?

Employees cannot sign away their right to raise legitimate concerns – but employers’ advisers have found various ways to circumvent the law, argues Andrew Yule ‘The problem is… people take a severance agreement, sign a con?dentiality clause and then think they are gagged… whether or not that is true’. Settlement agreements – and particularly ‘gagging’ …

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