Sunday 26 August 2018

Ex-Weinstein assistant calls for ban on contracts to silence harassment victims

Woman who kept quiet after signing non-disclosure agreement decided to speak out after 20 fearful years

For 20 years, Harvey Weinstein’s former assistant kept her silence over the man who had allegedly sexually harassed her and attempted to rape a colleague.

Last October, Zelda Perkins made the fraught decision to break a non-disclosure agreement she had signed with the now disgraced movie mogul in order to expose how he had used legal contracts to suppress alleged harassment victims. Now, 10 months later, Perkins is driving a campaign calling for a ban on the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to cover up workplace crimes, including sexual misconduct and racism.

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