“Apple’s Board intends to remain engaged in the company’s efforts to foster a culture where everybody belongs, and a workplace where everyone is treated with dignity and respect,” mentioned the corporate within the be aware.
Employees can communicate freely about harassment, discrimination
In the be aware, Apple mentioned that workers “are authorised to talk freely about your wages, hours, and dealing prerequisites, together with details about harassment, discrimination, or every other behavior you might have reason why to consider is against the law, and not anything on this Policy, or any Apple coverage, must be interpreted as being restrictive of your proper to take action.”
NDAs — or non-disclosure agreements — are something that most big tech companies get their employees to sign. Apple is also one of them. The company has clarified its stand on certain NDA policies as well. Apple said that it does use confidentiality provisions to protect corporate information, such as operational, financial, trade secrets, and other business information. Further, it said that it also uses non-disparagement clauses in the limited instances when we enter into mutually agreed separation agreements with employees, in compliance with laws. However, Apple further noted that “Consistent with Apple’s world coverage, such provisions don’t seem to be supposed to limit an worker’s or unbiased contractor’s talent to talk freely about harassment, discrimination, or behavior they consider to be illegal.”