One of the ways in which India Inc is becoming increasingly "global" in its HR practices is the blizzard of documents people sign when they join a corporation, setting out the terms of employment and employee obligations. Until recently, the most threatening of these documents were Codes of Conduct, Non-Disclosure Agreements, and restrictive covenants that preclude employees from working for competitors or doing business with customers for a specified period after they leave a company. Now, a new contractual animal has been lurking in the paperwork: The non-disparagement agreement.
The term recently attracted attention when Infosys' 2018 Annual Report revealed that
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