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A new federal law prohibits enforcement of nondisclosure agreements that have been used to silence workplace victims of sexual assault and harassment. With the Speak Out Act, “we’re taking the gag off the survivors of sexual assault and sexual harassment,” says U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, D-West Palm Beach. "The implications of having these NDAs or all these gags is that people were having to suffer in silence and abusers were allowed to continue abusing without anybody else knowing about it.”

President Biden signed the Speak Out Act, which allows employees to be released from certain non-disclosure agreements, or NDAs.

President Joe Biden has signed legislation curbing the use of confidentiality agreements that block victims of sexual harassment from speaking publicly about misconduct in the workplace.

Bipartisan federal legislation would prohibit enforcement of nondisclosure agreements used by businesses to force employees and customers to remain silent about allegations of sexual assault or sexual harassment. The agreements are more common than people realize, sometimes hidden in new-employee paperwork. “This bill will make workplaces across the country safer and more productive for employers, employees, and consumers,” says U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, a Palm Beach County Democrat who is the chief sponsor. Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News anchor who was a major catalyst of the #MeToo movement, says passage possible this year.

President Joe Biden has given victims of workplace sexual assault or harassment the right to seek recourse in a court of law instead of through forced arbitration proceedings.

A bill that was passed with strong bipartisan support seeks to nullify forced arbitration clauses for workplace sexual assault cases, allowing survivors to file lawsuits in court against perpetrators.

Congress passed the bill ending forced arbitration of sexual assault and harassment with an overwhelming vote in the House and unanimous Senate vote.

The bill bars employment contracts from forcing people to settle sexual assault or harassment cases through arbitration rather than in court.

The measure bars employment contracts from forcing people to settle sexual assault or harassment cases through arbitration rather than in court.

Congress has given final approval to legislation guaranteeing that people who experience sexual harassment at work can seek recourse in the courts.

The bipartisan bill bans employers from inserting provisions in contracts that require individuals who allege claims of sexual assault or harassment to go through a secretive process.

The House passed the bill on Monday.

The U.S. House has passed legislation barring contracts that force people to settle sexual assault or harassment cases through arbitration rather than in court, a process that often benefits employers and keeps misconduct allegations from becoming public.

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The #MeToo movement cast a cloud over corporate America’s penchant for secrecy on sexual harassment complaints. Some companies are embracing sunshine as an antidote. Tech titans Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Uber and some large law firms moved as early as 2018 to do away with contract clauses that forced employees to air their complaints in closed-door arbitration rather than in public. Movement in the financial sector has been slower, but Wells Fargo revised its policy in 2020 and Goldman Sac

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