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. ...
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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 ...
NWC Urges Public to Take Action to Prevent the Corporate Lobby from Destroying Whistleblower Protections
As reported today in the Washington Post, the SEC's Proposed Rules unlawfully restrict the ability of whistleblowers to make their ...
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 ...
NWC comments to OSHA on regs for NTSSA, FRSA, STAA and CPSIA
Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) submitted comments to the Department of Labor (DOL) on three sets of regulations for ...
NWC Opposes Corporate Lobby Attempt to Weaken Whistleblower Provisions in Dodd-Frank
The proposals by the Corporate Lobby are not "user friendly" as required by the statute and do not further the ...
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 ...
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