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Knowing a little bit about these types of clauses from having had to negotiate terms and conditions with subcontractors and defense contractors, and knowing a little bit about the general laziness of reporters and editors to actually verify ANY facts rather than just accepting talking points at face value, I am extremely confident that the following phrases from the story(that you emphasized) are extremely INACCURATE:

"... prevent victims of assault from going to court."
"they prohibit their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court."
"a fine-print clause in her KBR contract banned her from taking her case to court"

No contract clause can prohibit you from filing charges for assault if you are the victim of assault. Such a clause would be illegal. Also, while contract clauses can limit your ability to sue your employer until you have first sought remedies via arbitration, such clauses cannot prohibit you from pursuing your further legal remedies once you have gone through the required arbitration process.

Thank you for the clarification. By signing the contract the young woman (and all of their other employees) agreed to use arbitration first if the need to pursue legal remedies ever occured.

Shame on the media for misrepresenting (as usual) a very serious issue. They saw the potential to prey on the emotions of readers, and used this young woman's sad story to make defense contractors "like Halliburton" the bad guys by distorting the facts. As usual.