By Steve Kardell | Published September 29, 2022 | Posted in Employee Rights, Wrongful Termination | Tagged Tags: employer retaliation, JP Morgan, Sarbanes-Oxley Act |
Shaquala Williams, a former compliance attorney at JP Morgan, has sued the company for retaliation after she raised misconduct concerns. The bank filed a motion for summary judgement, alleging Williams was terminated due to poor performance. A New York federal judge denied summary judgement, and the trial will begin this November. Case background Williams’ suit Read More
Read MoreThe products liability chair at Buchalter APC, a law firm in Los Angeles, California, has been sued for sexually harassing and verbally abusing a subordinate. Karen Hurdle, a legal analyst and later senior legal administrator of products liability, alleges the firm was aware of the harassing coworker’s actions, but chose to protect him instead. Case Read More
Read MoreBeing a whistleblower can be an overwhelming process, according to Daily Harvest whistleblower Abby Silverman. Silverman received a tainted package of “French lentil and leek crumbles,” which sent her to the emergency room twice. Daily Harvest’s tainted meal kits Silverman is a social media influencer who received a meal package from Daily Harvest. After eating Read More
Read MoreA putative class action suit against automaker Tesla alleges they laid off thousands of workers without issuing federally-required notice. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requires employers to provide 60-day written notice of mass layoffs, but Tesla did not comply. Case background According to the complaint, Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk announced to executives that Read More
Read MoreUber and Lyft drivers have alleged the two companies are embroiled in a price-fixing scheme, causing drivers to earn less money for their work than they might have otherwise. Three drivers want to represent a class of all the drivers who opted out of Uber and Lyft’s arbitration clauses. They have asked the San Francisco Read More
Read MoreWhistleblowers with evidence of a crypto liquidation conspiracy could receive a $20 million dollar bounty for speaking up. Sources allege that there’s a scheme to liquidate cryptocurrency as an attack on Celsius, a cryptocurrency scheme marketed as an alternative lender. The Celsius liquidation scheme Celsius claims they want to “disrupt the financial industry” and help Read More
Read MoreA rehabilitative therapy business in Georgia, along with its founder, has been ordered to pay $9.6 million in damages for submitting nearly 800 false health care claims. Case background Middle Georgia Family Rehab LLC, along with owner/CEO Brenda Hicks, are jointly liable for 796 false claims submitted to TRICARE and Medicaid. The defendants were paid Read More
Read MoreTechnology was a historically male-dominated industry—but over the past decade, high profile, big tech whistleblowers have been disproportionately female. When compared to the percentage of women in the tech workforce, experts wondered if there’s a connection between gender, technology and whistleblowing. Women, whistleblowing and technology The article above studies the nature of the technology sector, Read More
Read MoreAtlantic Health Systems Inc. can’t avoid a workplace abuse suit filed by an Indian Muslim man, a New Jersey federal judge determined. Maqsood Thange alleged that Atlantic and one of its supervisors created a hostile workplace environment through discriminatory comments. Case background The case originally included additional claims against a temporary staffing agency, Oxford Global Read More
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