There are two parts to my story about NDAs. The first occurred when I joined the board of my national professional association…

I signed an NDA in 2017 as part of a settlement agreement and release. I made a donation of $10,000 in 2012 to a Christian charity…

At a meeting with the Dean of my area at a major Canadian University, I was told that my contract was not going to be renewed after five years of continuous employment…

I highlighted discriminatory conduct and wrongdoing. The organisation wanted to sweep everything under the carpet and offered money to silence me…

I participated in a prestigious fellowship program which placed early career lawyers from the global south as embedded technical experts in governments in Africa…

I was asked to sign an NDA to settle a sexual harassment complaint I made in my workplace

I reported academic wrongdoing that had compromised and made it impossible for me to complete my degree…

I was asked to sign an NDA so that I would not tell anyone my experience of sexual harassment to protect the university and the person accused of sexual harassment…

I was bullied, sexually harassed, and verbally and emotionally abused by a colleague at work…

I was sexually assaulted and filed a grievance. An NDA was part of the settlement I was forced to sign…

I was sexually assaulted by an ER tech while alone in my hospital room with him. I reported it after leaving the ER to the hospital and police department…

I signed an NDA in order to receive money for therapy a few decades ago, the process was easy. While signing was entirely my decision, the NDA is still impacting my life…

I was asked to sign an NDA to cover maternity discrimination and a second time to cover harassment…

I had been a Registered Nurse for 26 years when I was forced out of the profession I love despite the fact that there had never been any formal complaints made against me by any patient or family member…

Since 2018 I have signed 2 NDA’s after experiencing bullying and disability discrimination in 2 different workplaces…

I have worked in the Canadian federal public service for over 20 years. For all of my career, I saw white colleagues getting privileges that I was never offered…

I worked for a government agency where I was subjected to mobbing and victimisation by management…

After I was brutally assaulted by a partner at a large accounting business, the firm tried several times to coerce and trick me into signing an NDA…

I’m a former assistant professor. I was forced from my job by a tenured colleague with close personal ties to the vice president of my college in response to complaints I had made to colleagues…

I was asked to sign an NDA to prevent me speaking about the circumstances that led to the end of my career…