“My message is clear: no one should suffer in silence and we will back workers and give survivors the voice that they deserve.”
Angela Rayner, UK Deputy Prime Minister
On 11 September 2020, I replied to my union rep, from whom I had received an email that they cannot communicate with me anymore and I’m not to talk about it with others. Via their NTEU email address, I wrote,
“In society, of course no one can be a support, let me know I’m valued and people actually care about others on a human level. I’ve been alone and isolated for over a year for something that should’ve been resolved efficiently, and emotionally abused by those that should’ve ensured a safe work environment…
Patch Adams said the biggest disease in society is indifference. I’ve dealt with enough broken systems, bureaucracy until you give up, incompetent staff, government customer service, privacy breaches and medical negligence covered up, and pure evil … All this has made me feel disgusted in humanity. That’s how confronting and frightening my experience has been…Battling on my own. For kindness, peace, fair outcome, respect and dignity for each human person…
This is not the Australian society I once knew.”
As I mentioned, from their NTEU email, they wrote something to the effect of not speaking to anyone and the less people know the better. I don’t know what coercion was involved here, but BULLSHIT!
THE MORE PEOPLE KNOW, THE BETTER!
These are “leaders” engaging in reckless conduct with intent to cause harm!
What did Rena Christmann threaten the union with to get their silence and collusion?
How dare the National Tertiary Education Union agree to collude in allowing harassment and wage theft via workers compensation fraud towards a member!
In 2020, the R U OK? National day of action was on Thursday 10 September 2020. Look what was being done to me by senior executive “leaders” and now the NTEU, all because I requested some agreed boundaries for a psychosocially safe work environment!
Would anyone be OK if they were being subjected to this level of psychological terrorism, ironically, during the week of R U OK?’s national day of action?
It was an extremely lonely, creepy and frightening time given the incidents surrounding this “campaign”, especially the scary email from my union rep. That was the start of the NTEU mobbing, gross negligence and reckless conduct to its professional member.
On 12 September 2020, a former colleague posted on Facebook about RUOK? Day. It was from the official campaign, “I’m checking in to make sure you’re OK.”
I replied in a comment that I’m not ok and why. The response had me shaking like I was living a real life psychological thriller movie. It was a real life thriller story. The reply that they don’t know the organisation and never worked there is now obvious to me that a non-disclosure agreement was likely signed. But at the time, it was extremely traumatic for me, and escalated my distress and fear to a very high level.
I was begging for support. I was scared! And given this incident, unless we stop NDAs that cover up organisational misconduct, like the bill proposed in the UK, RUOK? will continue to be a brand with no substance in relation to workplaces.
Support means taking the actual time to have a coffee with someone, and standing by their side and speaking up to stop workplace abuse. How can so many people in society be so unconscionable, so indifferent and so inhumane? How could the NTEU engage in such serious misconduct when the two issues of focus in their campaign are an end to wage theft and WHS in the university sector?
On 15 September 2020, my family received a very intimidating email from Rena Christmann’s friends at Clayton Utz and Q Workplace Solutions. That requires a post on its own, maybe more, given the undisclosed conflicts of interest and collusion.
It really is a network of strategic alliances to target staff in the most immoral adverse action. And given it’s repeated behaviour from key individuals at an institutional level, the more people know the better, because it’s psychological violence against many staff and families by employers as ADVERSE ACTION FOR REQUESTING GENERALLY PROTECTED WORKPLACE RIGHTS! ENOUGH ABUSE.
WAKE UP SAFEWORK NSW!
This post is based on document 101. It displays adverse action for requesting generally protected workplace rights, being a member of an industrial association, prohibited workplace surveillance, privacy violations, discrimination, deception, malicious and vexatious conduct that condones engaging in WHS breaches and creating psychosocial hazards, not managing the risks as the PCBU is reasonably expected to do so, BY LAW.
Banning NDAs
The UK Parliament has moved to ban the use of non‑disclosure agreements (NDAs) as tools to silence victims and witnesses of workplace harassment, sexual misconduct, discrimination, and abuse.
Amendments to the Employment Rights Bill (tabled in early July 2025) will render any new NDAs or confidentiality/non‑disparagement clauses null and void if they’re designed to silence workers about harassment or discrimination.
Key voices for this bill are:
• Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner: Emphasised the need to end victims being “forced to suffer in silence”;
• Employment Minister Justin Madders: Asserted the changes will empower millions of workers to speak out freely;
• Labour MP Louise Haigh (and others): Hailed it as a fulfillment of reform promises that previous governments didn’t deliver.
This aligns the UK with other jurisdictions (some U.S. states, Canada, Ireland) that have taken similar steps. What action has the Australian government taken to do the same? NOTHING SO FAR.
The amendments are making their way through the legislative process. If passed, it will become law by the end of 2025.
The UK’s ban on abusive NDAs is a major step forward in protecting workers’ rights and promoting transparency and accountability in workplaces across the country. It ensures that no employee or witness can be legally gagged about legitimate claims of harassment or discrimination.
References and Resources
Crerar, P., Elgot, J. and Bawden, A. (2025, 8 July). ‘UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work.’ The Guardian. [Online]: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jul/07/uk-bosses-to-be-banned-using-ndas-cover-up-misconduct-work
Siddique, H. (2025, 8 July). ‘Labour has delivered where Tory ministers did not on NDA rules.’ The Guardian. [Online] : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/07/labour-delivered-where-tory-ministers-did-not-non-disclosure-agreement-pledge-metoo
R U OK? Resources for workplaces - https://www.ruok.org.au/work
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