Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow Bolder
This causes some pretty strong mixed feelings for me. On the one hand, foreign workers are already disadvantaged compared with domestic workers and H1-B caps are absurdly low. I keep failing to see why we are all supposed to open world markets to the flow of every sort of capital and goods <i>except</i> labor, or why someone deserves a job for being born American, rather than Indian (Note that I feel the same way when Americans are disadvantaged elsewhere for similar reasons[1]). On the other hand, a clause requiring that you never say something bad about your employer nor discuss the situation under which you were laid off seems not only abusive, but repugnantly so. In a country that constitutionally enshrines free speech, the ability to sign away for money your right to complain publicly about a person or organization seems particularly dangerous, and the act of asking someone to do so seems truly vile.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@rachelnabors&#x2F;wtfuk-73009d5623b4#.466usnivl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@rachelnabors&#x2F;wtfuk-73009d5623b4#.466usni...</a>