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On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) continued its aggressive application of the National Labor Relations Act (“Act” or “NLRA”) to workplaces...

National Labor Relations Board NLRB applies National Labor Relations Act NLRA to workplaces without union representation, lessened value of severance agreements by finding it unlawful for employer to proffer severance agreement with broad non-disparagement provisions.

The NLRB continued its aggressive application of the National Labor Relations Act to workplaces without union representation and lessened the value of severance agreements by finding it unlawful for a severance agreement to include broad confidentiality provisions.

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Many as one member of congress stood up and called for that action at the time. >> okay. not my job. >> he got the exact opposite response. now, one of the reasons for that was by the mere act of asking congress made congress and the american people think that he was aiming to do something far. >> he had the power as you know to order a military attack and bomb their air force and destroy their planes and did he not do it and thats what he should have done. >> hindsight is always 2020. >> no hin...

Many as one member of congress stood up and called for that action at the time. >> okay. not my job. >> he got the exact opposite response. now, one of the reasons for that was by the mere act of asking congress made congress and the american people think that he was aiming to do something far. >> he had the power as you know to order a military attack and bomb their air force and destroy their planes and did he not do it and thats what he should have done. >> hindsight is always 2020. >> no hin...

Great satan. she said we face a new level of viciousness. so to you and others who are opposed to these programs, shes saying thats got to be more important. >> yeah, and to me that is a false choice. in fact, i remember hearing president obama campaigning on the false choice, the bush administration was positioning when they were trying to do this very same thing. i think its really important for us to realize that its possible for us to have security while also not overstepping our right to pr...

For us to realize that its possible for us to have security while also not overstepping our right to privacy. >> can we do it without -- i mean, as ive listened to you and others who oppose these programs, the thing is the bulk collection. its all the metadata. if the government committed to having a huge database with our information, now, look, there has not been evidence of abuse even if you think that mere act is abusive, the collecting all of that data. >> indeed. but i would not like to ha...

Pockets. it looks like stop and frisk, the mere act of which shows who is the boss and who says youre clean. well, thats what this subcommittee of i.c.e. is up to trying to make noise so people will think theyre doing something up there on capital little, which everyone knows theyre not. >> earl, to mention stop and frisk as we know its being challenged. many people taking issue that minorities being targeted, blacks and latinos when they are, quote unquote, suspicious and in many cases as chris...

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