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Food safety bill will create new whistleblower protection; our patchwork has one less hole
Yesterday the U.S. Senate passed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), S. 510. It passed with strong bipartisan support. ...
Pete Tucker calls on President Obama to pardon Brad Birkenfeld
Pete Tucker is a journalist for TheFightBack.org and WPFW 89.3 FM, Washington, D.C.'s Pacifica Radio station. This week, he called...
Father of UBS Whistleblower Makes Personal Thanksgiving Day Plea for Son’s Clemency
Today, Ronald Birkenfeld, father of UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld, made a personal Thanksgiving Day appeal to President Barack Obama for...
My letter to Scientific American on PAWA
The December 2010 issue of Scientific American, page 12, features my letter to them about the Protecting America's Workers Act...
Supreme Court hears argument on employer liability in Staub v. Proctor Hospital
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Staub v. Proctor Hospital. I don't know why I could not...
Boeing’s brief claims SOX can never protect disclosures to the media
Lawyers for Matt Neumann and Nick Tides are currently finishing their last brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for...
Is your boss using a “key logger”? Find out.
A "key logger" is a computer program that keeps a record of every keystroke someone types on a computer. Hackers...
Supreme Court grills attorneys on protecting oral complaints
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on this question: Does the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) protect employees...
Charleston Gazette calls for modernizing whistleblower protections
In an editorial yesterday, the Charleston Gazette of West Virginia called on Congress to pass a law to modernize the...
Irish bank whistleblower gets second apology
In 2001, Eugene McErlean was working for the giant Allied Irish Banks (AIB) as an internal auditor. He discovered that...
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