What companies also do as part of their high-value employee contracts is to have a stipulation that you can't work for a competitor for a certain period of time if you quit your job. This indirectly shows the weakness of the NDA in that sense. But the problem with this stipulation, at least in Germany but I imagine elsewhere too, is that they then have to compensate you for not working for the competitor. Essentially they have to keep paying you for the time they don't want you to work.
This doesn't directly relate to Prem Rawat NDAs, but indirectly as expressed above. The NDAs are difficult to enforce for ex-employees. An organisation is not supposed to own you even when you do work for them and doubly so afterwards.
I think it would be a really interesting case for an ex-follower with inside info to speak out and challenge their NDA. They would first have to make sure they have some serious free or paid legal support behind them though. Because the act of the Rawat organisation taking them to court in itself would be highly embarrassing for them.
As already mentioned briefly, the defamation aspect might be a more serious thing to worry about. It is really a terrible weapon used against victims and whistleblowers. In Europe it is a typical way for typically male abusers in high places to silence their victims. I have read about this several times for cases in France but also Germany. But things seem to be changing for the better.
Indeed I have a personal story involving one of my children where the defamation threat was used. I don't want to discuss that here though.
