The online travel firm raised eyebrows when it discouraged retrenched employees from contacting trade unions, as part of severance agreements. CNA's Fabian Koh finds out just how common this practice is, and what workers and the authorities can do in response. SINGAPORE: When online travel firm Agoda laid off around 50 people here as part of a retrenchment exercise, the terms of its severance agreements raised eyebrows. Employees were told not to make reports to any government agencies,