Nintendo fires editor for appearing in a podcast, Cliff Bleszinski buts in

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Nem said:

Its fair enough if thats how it works (in the US). But in principle its just wrong. It means a company can be a country inside its own country by setting a group of arbitrary rules that allow them to lay off workers. That is extremely abusive, but i had heard that work laws were pretty brutal in the US before.

We do see it constantly on the games industry when teams are fired after they finished their project and then they rehire new staff when they decide on the next thing to do.

Works like that in the UK as well, most companies warn you against speaking to the media or in a similar manner, in fact in the UK it's just a straight up sackable offence when you breach contract in anyway, in most countries it's the same. You have rights yes but those rights aren't fully with out limitations like for example in the UK you can't incite racial hatred or an easy one for people to understand in the west if you say things about someone in a public manner they can take legal action against you because your words can have an affect on them and their lives, this is no different to having an NDA in a contract only a company give you a warning first and make it clear how serious a matter it can be when hired.

The NDAs are part of their terms to be an employee for any of these companies, it's like someone telling you have to take off your shoes before you come in their house and not smoke inside either you don't have to do it but then they don't have to let you in if you refuse their terms.