My company is requiring me to sign a new employee handbook that includes a hold harmless stating that I will not sue the company because of various issues including sexual harassment. I very hesitant to sign but I also don’t want to lose my job. Is this even legal?

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Any court would deem this unconscionable due to unequal bargain power and the fact that it unfairly benefits the employer. So I’d just sign and sue them if they violate any actual law. Still blows my mind how some companies think their words stands over the law and the people of America… this is not legal advice.

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This.

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Not a lawyer but I would be surprised if such terms (even signed) would be legally binding.

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I’m with you on that. I would question why it’s even on there. They might not realize it hasn’t been updated since 1970.

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I saw something like this on Progressive's application (was looking to swap to another carrier). I literally stopped midway through the application and deleted what I'd already filled out. You know that something like that is only in there because something really bad happened.

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Feels like terms and conditions on everything around us, like we have a real choice 🙄

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You aren't wrong! As a renter I always had to sign away my right to sue or join a class action against the mgmt company and I recently learned my high school (a private school) required parents to sign away their right to sue if something happened (also found out they had a small gas leak for yrs so luck we weren't blown up).

Whoa that’s wild. I’m sure I probably signed something like that and didn’t even read it. Way to go for reading it!

The sneakly added it to the last page 🙄

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Is it one that requires you to enter into arbitration rather than sue? If so, I think that came up a lot during #metoo allegations, and it’s probably not enforceable. But I’m not a lawyer.

Have a consultation call with a lawyer and run this by them

Turn them into the local employment board and EEOC if in the US

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