By Admin | Published May 18, 2015 | Posted in Graft and Corruption | Tagged Tags: retaliation, Veterans Affairs, whistleblower | Leave a comment
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been the subject of controversy for much of the past year after a variety of whistleblowers exposed a nationwide problem of extremely long wait times for veterans needing treatment and benefits. Unfortunately, many of those VA whistleblowers suffered retaliation by management after exposing the problems within the agency. Read More
Read MoreJon Costa, a former employee of Aramark, claims that the company fired him after he publicized a number of major food violations that the company committed in its work at Arrowhead and Kaufman stadiums in November 2014. He had been placed on paid administrative leave and now finds himself out of a job altogether, after Read More
Read MoreA Southwest Airlines employee claims that he was retaliated against for uncovering and reporting two cracks while investigating the fuselage of a Boeing 737-700 during his regular maintenance checks. Now, Southwest has agreed to remove that discipline from the mechanic’s personal file and will pay him $35,000 in fees. The mechanic filed the lawsuit under Read More
Read MoreThe state of California jumped aboard a whistleblower lawsuit in progress against BP Plc, alleging that BP had overcharged the state by up to approximately $300 million for nearly a decade for natural gas. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit now include the state, two of its university systems and a BP whistleblower, Christopher Schroen. The Read More
Read MoreShortly after Chrystal Thierry refused to approve some extremely high pay raises for several top administrators within the Dallas Independent School District, she says she became the victim of retaliation. As the compensation director for the school district, it was her job to oversee such pay raises. When she declined to approve them, her boss Read More
Read MoreIn 2010, Paula Pedene helped reveal a scandal in the Phoenix Veterans Affair Hospital revolving around mismanagement that ultimately led to the hospital being $11.4 million short in its budget. Now, it’s being reported that she has been placed in a lower-ranking job as punishment for her role as a whistleblower. Pedene, 56, had a Read More
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