The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved legislation to crack down on the use of forced arbitration in the workplace and expand legal options for employees facing age discrimination.

Gretchen Carlson is fighting to end forced arbitration in age discrimination lawsuits

LOV co-founder Gretchen Carlson testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on April 9th in support of the Protecting Older Americans Act.

Gretchen Carlson, along with her Lift Our Voices co-founder, Julie Roginsky, may have cracked the code for an increasingly rare phenomenon on Capitol Hill: bipartisan support.

A female employee of Citigroup recently sued the bank, accusing its leadership of tolerating a work culture in which she was sexually harassed and abused by male executives, in a high-profile application of a 2022 federal law that nullified forced arbitration for such cases.

“Our mission is for every protected class to not be subjected to these silencing mechanisms,” former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson told HR Dive.

CBS Mornings: New law changes right to report sexual harassment and assault at work:

Five years after the #MeToo movement took off, Congress is now limiting an employer’s ability to keep its employees quiet in cases of sexual assault and harassment.

The U.S. House voted today to pass the Speak Out Act to restore the voices of victims of sexual harassment and assault. The law will allow employees to talk about their experiences with harassment or assault at work by invalidating nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) that force workers to remain silent in these cases.

The U.S. House took a groundbreaking, bipartisan step Wednesday to limit the use of non-disclosure and non-disparagement agreements to silence survivors of workplace sexual misconduct.

As the fifth anniversary of the #MeToo movement nears, Congress is making moves to dismantle some of the workplace roadblocks that brought it about.