Federal Employee Whistleblowers Win Rare Victory
This is a major victory for all federal employee whistleblowers whose cases were pending at the time the WEPA was ...
Tag: WPEA
NWC Files Another Brief Urging the MSPB to Retroactively Apply WPEA
On April 12, 2013, the National Whistleblower Center filed an Amicus Curiae brief with the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), ...
Federal Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act Becomes Law
President Barack Obama signed into law today the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA). Whistleblower attorneys working pro bono with the ...
Why Summary Judgment Must be Removed from the WPEA
The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) may move through Congress in the coming days, or even hours, and contains many ...
Federal Circuit finally gets due process and “clear and convincing”
In this week's Honesty Without Fear radio program, I interviewed Robert "Bob" Whitmore and his lawyer, Paula Dinerstein, about the ...
Julia Davis blasts House version of WPEA
TAKE ACTION! Julia Davis, the Homeland Security writer for the Los Angeles Examiner, released an article yesterday calling for action ...
House Leadership Guts Whistleblower Bill
TAKE ACTION! Today, leaders in the House of Representatives introduced a bill (H.R. 3289) to amend the Whistleblower Protection Act. ...
Senate Committee marks up and approves a weak WPEA
This morning, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) marked up and approved S. 743, the Whistleblower Protection ...
Kohn Op-Ed in New York Times tells the story behind America’s first whistleblower protection law
Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), published an op-ed article in today's New York Times.The ...
Citizen activism does the impossible: One WPEA loophole closed
Yesterday, Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) introduced the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 (WPEA), S. 743. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive ...
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