The law change that could transform toxic workplaces

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  This is The Guardian.

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  Today, a change in law around NDAs and how it could change workplace culture forever.

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  Have you ever signed a non-disclosure agreement?

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  If you have there's a chance you might not even know for sure.

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  And if you do,

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  there's an even stronger chance that not a lot of people in your life would have any idea.

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  Zelda Perkins used to work for Harvey Weinstein.

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  That experience was brutal.

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  But by breaking her NDA, she helped kickstart the Me Too movement.

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  Thousands of women around the world spoke out against sexual harassment using just two words,

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  Me Too.

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  Now there are millions of Me Too's out there on social media.

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  Allegations quickly surfaced in other industries, politics, food, theatre and journalism.

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  Ever since,

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  she has been campaigning for years to stop companies using NDAs to protect the kind of behaviour and culture she wants to see stamped out.

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  Bullying, harassment, sexual assault.

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  racial abuse, corruption, criminality.

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  The list is long and the law has been slow to catch up.

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  and that you suddenly realise that your voice has been taken away,

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  and it's not just been taken away publicly,

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