President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed into law a measure to bar enforcement of pre-dispute nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) that prohibit victims from disclosing sexual assault and harassment on the job.
“I just signed the Speak Out Act, a bill that’ll enable survivors to speak out about workplace sexual assault and harassment and increase access to justice,” the Democrat president announced on Twitter.
The Speak Out Act reads: “With respect to a sexual assault dispute or sexual harassment dispute, no nondisclosure clause or nondisparagement clause agreed to before the dispute arises shall be judicially enforceable in instances in which conduct is alleged to have violated Federal, Tribal, or State law.”…