In keeping with my long-standing commitment to leave legal stuff to lawyers, I offer you today’s tip from Llyod Aubry Jr. and Armilla Staley-Ngomo, two employment attorneys at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. I don’t know them personally, but it sounds like they know their stuff; Aubry formerly served as special assistant and counsel to the Secretary of Labor.
Aubry and Staley-Ngomo write that in July, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued new guidance for how employers can ask employees to waive their right to bring lawsuits alleging age discrimination. Although such waivers are legal, the EEOC reminds employers that such waivers must be “knowing and voluntary” by employees who sign them.
