By Admin | Published April 23, 2015 | Posted in Employee Rights | Tagged Tags: adverse action, malicious, retaliation suit, workplace retaliation, wrongdoing | Leave a comment
Quick Facts You Should Know About Workplace Retaliation
Whether you think that you have a workplace retaliation case or you simply want to arm yourself with information before you decide to blow the whistle on shady company practices, there are a few facts that you should know about retaliation in the work environment. The following are a few facts for you to keep Read More
Read MoreCourt Makes Important Decision in Privileged Document Case
In many circumstances, courts say that corporations might relinquish privilege protection through internal privileged communications even beyond employees who have a “need to know.” This policy is often criticized because it gives corporations’ competition a chance to access internal corporate communications that would typically only be disclosed to employees that have a contractual duty to Read More
Read MoreSEC Launches Investigation into Employment Contracts that Prevent Whistleblowing
A February 25 article in the Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will begin investigating the kinds of agreements that certain companies make with their employees. The article states that the agency has already sent out several requests to different companies for years’ worth of employment contracts, nondisclosure agreements Read More
Read MoreU.S. Department of Labor Hands Down Final Ruling on SOX Whistleblower Processes
On March 5, the U.S. Department of Labor gave its Final Rule in a case dealing with the types of procedures that govern the handling of retaliation complaints under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). The Final Rule indicates that all employees are allowed to submit both written and oral complaints to the Occupational Safety and Health Read More
Read MoreOSHA Requests $39 Million in Additional Funding for 2016
According to the 2016 Fiscal Year budget proposals in the Department of Labor, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has requested an additional $39 million of funding for next year. The funding would help the agency to hire 90 additional members to its full-time staff, including 60 that would be dedicated to federal enforcement. Read More
Read MoreRecent NLRB Decision Focuses on Business Email Use
A recent decision made by the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the board will presume that any employees that have access to their employer’s email system during their work also have a right to use that email to engage in certain protected communications while they are not working. The decision came about after an Read More
Read MoreCourt Rules That Outing a Whistleblower Constitutes Retaliation
When whistleblowers intend to remain in their company after alerting authorities to wrongdoing, it is imperative that they are able to maintain their privacy so that they would not be the victims of retaliation by other employees. In a case involving a whistleblower for Halliburton Co., a court ruled that a company that reveals the Read More
Read MoreFormer California State Bar Director Files Wrongful Termination Suit
Former senator Joe Dunn has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the State Bar of California, claiming that the organization fired him from his position as Executive Director after he reported various ethical breaches and illegal activities by some of the agency’s high-ranking officials. The lawsuit came just days after Dunn received notice of his Read More
Read MoreCitigroup Whistleblower Continues to Make an Impact
Richard Bowen has been the subject of a lot of attention in recent years. He’s been featured in the New York Times and was a subject of a segment on CBS’s 60 Minutes. While today he is a senior lecturer of accounting for the University of Texas at Dallas, he performs this role with a Read More
Read MoreWhistleblower Fired After Uncovering ‘Too Much Corruption’
A whistleblower case involving a nonprofit organization made big news recently after an employee was fired for “uncovering too much corruption” in grants given to the organization. That employee was John Parsons, a former Inspector General for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. According to reports, Parsons was fired because his concerns Read More
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