While that may be the case legally companies are good at bluffing about just how powerless they want you to believe that you are. You’ve had the legally protected right to discuss your wage with your coworkers for longer than any still-living member of my family has been alive… and yet they’ll happily tell you, off record, that it’s a violation of some policy or another to exercise that right.
An NDA cannot be used to cover up a crime. A manager may threaten a lawsuit, but the courts have been clear regarding issues like OSHA.
And management is totally a skill independent of doing the job, but it is really hard to find people good at it.
While that may be the case legally companies are good at bluffing about just how powerless they want you to believe that you are. You’ve had the legally protected right to discuss your wage with your coworkers for longer than any still-living member of my family has been alive… and yet they’ll happily tell you, off record, that it’s a violation of some policy or another to exercise that right.