By Steve Kardell | Published April 18, 2016 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation | Tagged Tags: whistleblower retaliation claim |
A New Hampshire federal jury recently hit Walmart with penalties upwards of $31 million for incidents of gender bias and illegal retaliation against a former pharmacist for the company who reported a variety of safety concerns involving her coworkers. According to the lawsuit, Walmart negligently supervised and trained its pharmacy staff at its Seabrook, New Read More
Read MoreA truck driver has received a $45,000 award after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) determined the company that employed him violated a variety of whistleblower laws. The man began driving for Brindi Trailer Sales and Services of Meridale in 2011. Not long after he started working for the company, Read More
Read MoreOn April 4, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) awarded a whistleblower with more than $10 million. This is just the third whistleblower award the CFTC has approved since its whistleblower program was enacted in 2011, and it is by far the largest amount awarded to date. Before this, the biggest award that had been Read More
Read MoreA former employee of Origin Energy has filed a whistleblower claim against the Australian company, alleging it organized a cover-up of some extremely serious compliance failures at many of its gas and oilfields. Now, at least 20 other current and former employees of the energy giant have come forward and offered to become witnesses in Read More
Read MoreThe U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently launched a brand-new website for the agency’s whistleblower program at www.whistleblower.gov. The new website offers a better interface for informing the general public on the whistleblower program and gives users the ability to submit leads about possible violations of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA). People may also Read More
Read MoreThe director of an internal audit at MetroHealth in Ohio recently claimed two of the organization’s vice presidents and one employee’s relative had received free Botox injections and various other services from the Pepper Pike Dermatology Clinic. The information was revealed in a lawsuit filed in December in Cuyahoga County. The findings of the report Read More
Read MoreThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has awarded a whistleblower with more than $700,000 after the whistleblower’s reports to the agency resulted in a successful enforcement action. Three other whistleblowers were denied awards, according to the SEC’s case order. This large sum was just the latest awarded handed out under the SEC’s whistleblower program, which Read More
Read MoreThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has done a lot to increase the protections afforded to whistleblowers in the last several years. In 2015, the agency took several steps to further ensure whistleblowers are not prevented from coming forward and reporting incidents of wrongdoing within their organizations. Since the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act of Read More
Read MoreIt’s natural for employers to feel as if they are in a tough spot when it comes to protecting confidentiality related to whistleblower claims, as these actions inherently come from an employee’s ability to report wrongdoing to enforcement agencies. However, there are steps companies can take to strengthen compliance and support would-be whistleblowers. The Whistleblower Read More
Read MoreA former Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission manager filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the agency, alleging he was wrongfully terminated in 2008 after he reported various wasteful practices, politically motivated contracts and other alleged improprieties. The case was given the green light to proceed this fall. The former manager, Ralph Ballets, had worked for the PTC from Read More
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