The law change that could transform toxic workplaces

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Zelda Perkins was Harvey Weinstein’s PA – and has spent the last eight years campaigning against the non-disclosure agreements used to silence abused employees. Now she has won a major victory. Alexandra Topping reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:02.0	Today, a change in law around NDAs and how it could change workplace culture forever.
0:20.0	Today in Focus is supported by London Business School.
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1:25.5	Have you ever signed a non-disclosure agreement?
1:33.2	If you have, there's a chance you might not even know for sure.
1:36.6	And if you do, there's an even stronger chance that not a lot of people in your life would have any idea.
1:43.8	Zelda Perkins used to work for Harvey Weinstein.
1:47.0	That experience was brutal.
1:49.6	But by breaking her NDA, she helped kickstart the Me Too movement.
1:53.9	Thousands of women around the world spoke out against sexual harassment using just two words,
1:59.0	Me Too.
1:59.7	Now there are millions of Me Too's out there on social media.
2:03.7	Allegations quickly surfaced in other industries, politics, food, theater, and journalism.
2:10.3	Ever since, she has been campaigning for years to stop companies using NDAs to protect the kind of
2:16.4	behavior and culture she wants to see stamped out.
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