A pro-worker policy group headed by former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson is again taking to Capitol Hill, this time with legislation targeting nondisclosure agreements that silence employees reporting sexual harassment.
Less than six months ago, the same group—Lift Our Voices—ushered a similar bill into law, nullifying mandatory arbitration provisions for workers alleging #MeToo claims. That bill had bipartisan support from the get-go; the new measure on nondisclosure agreements has bicameral Republican support as well.
Carlson and her group’s co-founder, Julie Roginsky, are becoming adept at the art of achieving bipartisan support on wide-reaching worker protections, and are already looking at other forms of workplace toxicity to tackle next.
Carlson used the same playbook that brought her past success when strategizing for this new bill, she said.
“The issue was apolitical, and that was always my line when I got in the door,” Carlson said. “It’s not like we’re saying, ‘This is good enough.’ But this is a step in the right direction.”
Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) is sponsoring the latest nondisclosure agreement bill, known as the SPEAK OUT Act (H.R. 8227), which she’s introduced in the US House. The measure has the backing of Reps. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), and Burgess Owens (R-Utah).
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