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In March 2022, Congress enacted a law limiting employers’ ability to mandate that employees pursue sexual assault or harassment claims through arbitration, rather than in court. The legislation was championed by former Fox News hosts Gretchen Carlson and Julie Roginsky, whose nonprofit, Lift Our Voices, advocates to end employment clauses that prevent workers from going public with claims about toxic workplaces. Carlson began advocating against mandatory arbitration after encountering issues with the process when she sued her boss, former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, for sexual harassment in 2016.
That law, formally known as the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault