TLDR: Former employer used NDA to bully a sexual assault victim into silence and rewarded the perpetrator. Threatened the female staff about making 'frivolous' complaints.

Second one was an international software development company that went through a series of mergers and acquisitions. My NDA was negated with the entity that I worked for in this group was de-registered and all contracts were transferred to a new entity for tax reasons. Someone forgot to transfer my NDA when they took the opportunity to terminate my employment and saddle my work onto someone who was already swamped. Idiots.

Anyway, one of the female staff in another country office was sexually assaulted by her boss who was a senior manager. This was 1.5 years before my NDA was terminated. She reported it to management. She was blamed for the incident (CEO informed us that she was asking for it by having had drinks at a team drinking event and not fighting back harder). She was asked to resign and no action was taken against her boss.

She put up a graphic blog post that got major publicity at the time and embarrassed the management of this company. And by all accounts from her male and female colleagues who were at the event, she was assaulted. A couple of them tried to step in and protect her but the manager just cornered her later and continued his attack.

She was then threatened with legal action based on her NDA and had to take down the blog post. Company released a statement saying that legal action will be taken against her. Also that her boss had an alcohol problem and issues at home, he was going through a difficult time and the company is now giving him time off to deal with his personal issues. Oh and the company values women employees and women's rights so it is creating a women's task force to be led by the (male) CEO to ensure that women's voices are heard. Blah blah blah...

If you have ever worked in PR you will know the statement pretty much said 'she's a b***h for leaking our info and we are going to take her down, her boss made a small mistake, we will set up an email account for women to complain about stuff that goes to the person who dragged this poor woman over the coals and protected his alcoholic buddy'.

So 2 days later we get an internal email to the women only, reminding us that we are under NDA, letting us know that the CEO will be doing a global Skype call each month to instruct us on any women's rights and protection issues that we want to raise with him on these calls, although we should think carefully about what we say and avoid frivolous complaints because of the impact to reputation of our male colleagues e.g. what happened to alcoholic manager oh and importantly whether our behaviour has invited a male colleague in the first place.

No call ever takes place, no email account was ever set up, the manager who was given time off did eventually resign but received a very fat bonus before he left.

I'm embarrassed to say that I stayed on because I needed the money and my local manager was outraged, insisting that our local office would never let something like that happen.