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8 Severance Agreement Considerations for Employees
Is your Massachusetts employer showing you the door while providing you with a severance agreement to consider? It is advisable to go...
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Salary confidentiality policies no more
I wanted to touch briefly on those employment policies sometimes found in employee handbooks that ban employees from discussing their pay...
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Some reminders from the Mass Appeals Court on evidence in employment discrimination cases
Following are a few reminders from the Massachusetts Appeals Court in an employment discrimination case, Scarlett v. City of Boston, out...
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I'm quoted today in Bloomberg Law on #MeToo and the increase in sexual harassment filings
This is a quick post about today's article in Bloomberg Law in which I'm quoted. The article seems to have arisen from news that the...
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A cautionary tale about confidentiality clauses in settlement agreements
When an employee is handed a proposed severance agreement from an employer, many of the provisions, including the confidentiality or...
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The wave of the #MeToo movement
Former federal District Court judge Nancy Gertner submitted a column in a recent edition of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (subscription...