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Meta keeps 'block' lists of ex-employees — and even help from a VP can't get you off them

Former employees and managers and have been left in the dark about what it takes to get off Meta's block list.

Interviews with five former employees across different divisions, along with internal emails and messages viewed by BI, revealed multiple instances of workers who were laid off and discovered they were barred from rejoining Meta after applying for new positions at the company despite good performance records in their previous stints. A division director told them that they had witnessed similar cases where current Meta employees, who had been given a month to find new internal roles after their programs had been canceled, discovered that they were blocked from transferring because they happened to be on a list. Mitchell Epner, a partner at Kudman Trachten Aloe and Posner LLP who practices employment law, told BI that it's common for severance agreements to include provisions barring former employees from reapplying.

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