It is wrong to assume that an NDA or confidentiality agreement is always imposed on the employee. Not all former employees exiting under a settlement agreement will want their business to be made public. In those cases they actively seek the security that an NDA or confidentiality agreement will give them.
There are misconceptions about NDAs and it is often wrongly reported that signing one completely shuts the employee down. However, settlement agreements always expressly allow for the former employee to whistleblow and report matters to the police.
NDAs have an important role, despite a campaign to ban them. Campaign groups Pregnant Then Screwed and Can’t Buy My Silence are calling for non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to be banned in employment disputes.
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