After Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson was arrested, a ban on using non-disclosure agreements as a condition of employment gained momentum. The post City Council bans councilors from requiring that staff sign NDAs appeared first on Boston.

The council passed the legislation with the hope that it would improve transparency and promote an ethical working environment, after the indictment of a city councilor who required staff to sign NDAs in order to work for her.

The Boston City Council voted to ban councilors from requiring their staff to enter into non-disclosure agreements as a condition of their employment, in response to a federal indictment that