A survey of over 10,000 participants found that 15.30% of tech employees felt silenced by their NDA.
LOV co-founder Gretchen Carlson testifies in support of the Protecting Older Americans Act
LOV co-founder Gretchen Carlson testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on April 9th in support of the Protecting Older Americans Act.
HR Dive: Gretchen Carlson heads back to Capitol Hill — this time taking aim at age discrimination
Gretchen Carlson, along with her Lift Our Voices co-founder, Julie Roginsky, may have cracked the code for an increasingly rare phenomenon on Capitol Hill: bipartisan support.
NYT: Citi Is Sued Over Sex Abuse. Before 2022, It Would Have Been a Secret.
A female employee of Citigroup recently sued the bank, accusing its leadership of tolerating a work culture in which she was sexually harassed and abused by male executives, in a high-profile application of a 2022 federal law that nullified forced arbitration for such cases.
HR Dive: The fight against forced arbitration and NDAs comes piece by piece
“Our mission is for every protected class to not be subjected to these silencing mechanisms,” former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson told HR Dive.
CBS Mornings: New Law Changes Right to Report Sexual Harassment and Assault at Work:
CBS Mornings: New law changes right to report sexual harassment and assault at work:
19th News: Congress passes bill to ban NDAs in cases of workplace sexual harassment
Five years after the #MeToo movement took off, Congress is now limiting an employer’s ability to keep its employees quiet in cases of sexual assault and harassment.
Forbes: Congress Passes Law Restoring Survivors’ Voices, Banning NDAs In Sexual Harassment Cases
The U.S. House voted today to pass the Speak Out Act to restore the voices of victims of sexual harassment and assault. The law will allow employees to talk about their experiences with harassment or assault at work by invalidating nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) that force workers to remain silent in these cases.
Axios: Congress passes groundbreaking bill limiting use of secret agreements in sexual harassment cases
The U.S. House took a groundbreaking, bipartisan step Wednesday to limit the use of non-disclosure and non-disparagement agreements to silence survivors of workplace sexual misconduct.
HR Dive: Are NDAs on the way out?
As the fifth anniversary of the #MeToo movement nears, Congress is making moves to dismantle some of the workplace roadblocks that brought it about.
Fortune: The women behind #MeToo, 5 years later: Tarana Burke, Ellen Pao, and Gretchen Carlson on what has and hasn’t changed
Burke coined the phrase "me too" in 2006. In 2017, #MeToo went viral and became a movement.
Bloomberg Law: Senate Passes Bill Voiding Nondisclosure Pacts for #MeToo Claims
The US Senate has passed legislation that would invalidate nondisclosure and nondisparagement agreements signed before a worker alleges sexual harassment and sexual assault.
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