The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission made headlines earlier this year by filing a lawsuit attacking CVS Pharmacy, Inc.'s standard severance agreement, which the EEOC argued unlawfully restricts former employees' rights to file charges with the EEOC and to participate in EEOC investigations. What made the case interesting was that while CVS' severance agreement required an employee to release discrimination claims, it also expressly stated that the agreement "shall not interfere with [an] Employee's right to participate in a proceeding with any appropriate federal, state or local government agency enforcing discrimination laws .
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