During exit interview, company requires employees to sign a document stating they won't recruit coworkers.

What do they do if you refuse to sign? It's an exit interview, you've already quit or been terminated.

Seriously, they can present you with just about any document they want, but they can't make you sign it.

You're quitting -- you're under no legal obligation to sign or agree to anything at that point. Unless they're offering you some kind of generous severance package or a bunch of money in exchange for agreeing to limit what you can do after you're no longer employed, I would never recommend signing your rights away on the way out the door.

If the employer wanted to get you under some kind of non-solicitation or no-poaching agreement as a condition of your employment, the time to do that generally would have been when you started the job, not at the end of your job.

I intend to ask them directly when presented with the document

The only question I would ask is, "What's in it for me?"

I would check your employee handbook/ pamphlet that you signed when you were hired on. Some places write in there that you have to sign all documents presented in the exit interview and if you don't you will be in breach of conttact which can lead to a slew of legal BS. If there is no such stipulation then you aren't required to sign, just don't expect a reference from them.

What are they gonna do if you don't sign it, fire you?

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Author: u/badstufftime

Title: During exit interview, company requires employees to sign a document stating they won't recruit coworkers.

Original Post:

I have a lot of grievances with the company I work for, as do most people I work with. When people leave, they tend to leave in droves. Instead of addressing the problems making people leave, during exit interviews they've started making people sign a document agreeing not to recruit other employees to their new workplace.

I'm currently seeking a new job and do not want to sign this document out of principle. Is there any way I'm legally required to sign it? I intend to ask them directly when presented with the document, but don't trust them to tell me the truth.

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Of course not, you quit or were fired, you're no longer their employee, they cannot make you sign anything.

They can't make you sign anything or even do an exit interview. That said, if you have severance tied to it you may have to give it up.