NWC Applauds First SEC Whistleblower Award
Under a new program championed by the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) to reduce securities fraud, the Securities and Exchange Commission ...
Tag: Corporate Whistleblowers
Why Retaliation is a Company “Felony”
Retaliation is an ugly thing. In the workplace, it's also a powerful and complex individual and team-based behavior that is ...
NWC amicus urges Supreme Court to reverse in Lawson
Today, Stephen M. Kohn and I are filing a "friend of the court" brief urging the United States Supreme Court ...
Fourth Circuit says employees can copy data the employer allows them to see
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (in Richmond, Virginia) ruled that employers cannot use the ...
ATF’s Orwellian Warning to Whistleblowers
In Washington, there's an old cliché: The definition of a gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. So ...
NWC amicus seeks SOX protection for international whistleblowers
Yesterday, I had one of those moments that makes a lawyer's adrenalin run. At 4:00 p.m., the clerk's office called ...
OSHA orders railroad to pay $800,000 to three injured workers
This week, OSHA found that Norfolk Southern Railway Co., a major transporter of commodities based in Norfolk, Virginia, owed over ...
“The Garcetti Virus” and an erosion of whistleblower’s rights
In Nancy M. Modesitt’s recent research article “The Garcetti Virus,” she explains how a doctrine known as the job duties ...
Federal judge rules in favor of whistleblower Benjamin Ashmore
U.S. District Court Judge Leonard B. Sand issued a ruling on Tuesday that allowed a corporate fraud whistleblower, Benjamin Ashmore, ...
ARB says SOX covers contractor’s employees; rejects Lawson
The U.S. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board (ARB) issued a precedent setting decision last week holding that the Sarbanes-Oxley ...
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