Victims of workplace sexual harassment want some types of NDAs to be banned

Survivors of sexual harassment want to see a bill passed in the final weeks of the New York state legislative session that would ban most forms of nondisclosure agreements.

The survivors, including several women who worked at Fox News, said the current law has loopholes that protect sexual predators.

Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson recently came to the Capitol, along with other survivors of sexual harassment.

Carlson successfully sued the former head of Fox News, the late Roger Ailes, for harassment and retaliation. But she had to sign a nondisclosure agreement as part of a settlement. Even though the incident has been reported widely in the media, and was even the subject of a Hollywood movie, she’s not allowed to talk about it.

“My story may be public, but I have been silenced by an NDA prohibiting me from ever disclosing what really happened,” Carlson said.