A bill limiting the use of NDAs to silence victims of workplace sexual harassment and assault appears poised to become law in the U.S.
the kind of document you might agree to on your first day of work. It also doesn't apply to other kinds of complaints — wage theft, or age or race discrimination, for example.
And, the bill doesn't make clear what counts as a "dispute." Some would argue that means a lawsuit, while to others it may just mean a worker has taken a complaint to HR.these limitations. "It's a start for us," she told Axios. "But that's what we could get done right now in this Congress." This new law would not prohibit the kind of NDA that Carlson and Roginsky both had to sign after they settled litigation with their former employer.
Companies regularly require former employees to sign these silencing agreements as a condition of settlement."Workers should not be silenced in the face of workplace sexual harassment and assault, or face retaliation for coming forward to report such abuse," the administration said. "Transparency is the best way to hold workers accountable."This is the second # MeToo-related bill that Carlson has shepherded through Congress.
As the Senate was voting, a Republican Senator was overheard saying he'd vote for similar legislation covering NDAs. Word got back to Bustos, who immediately called Frankel, who had been trying to gain traction for a similar kind of bill.
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