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Last Friday OSHA published an interim final rule, and invited public comment on whistleblower protections for reporting violations of Affordable Care Act's health insurance reforms. The Affordable Care Act contains various provisions to make health insurance more affordable and accountable...

National Whistleblower Center ("NWC"), the National Whistleblowers Legal Defense and Education Fund ("Fund"), Bradley Birkenfeld, Scott Rosen, and Gene Ross jointly submitted a comprehensive 84-page comment on the IRS's proposed rules for its whistleblower office (26 CFR Part 301 )

The Internal Revenue Service Whistleblower Office announced that it paid a record $125.4 million in 2012 to whistleblowers that provided evidence of tax cheating, but new rule changes place future recoveries at risk. More than 80 percent of the total...

Last week OSHA published interim final rules on the Seaman's Protection Act procedures governing whistleblower complaints under the Act.

District of Columbia Councilmember Mary Cheh introduced the "False Claims Act of 2013," which will amend the D.C. False Claims Act to permit whistleblowers to bring tax-related fraud claims. If enacted into law, the bill would permit whistleblowers to seek...

The NWC and ACLU also presented a briefing paper at the DOJ listening session listing 14 specific recommendations that are needed to improve the DOJ regulations on whistleblower rights for FBI employees.

On January 15, 2013 U.S. District Court Judge Robert H. Cleland issued a key ruling in support of Justice Department whistleblower Richard G. Convertino in his longstanding Privacy Act lawsuit against the DOJ. The Court ordered the Detroit Free Press...

OSHA lawsuit alleges that the employer terminated a resident manager for filing a complaint with the Clermont County General Health District stating that S.E.M. Villa II had been ineffective in handling a bedbug infestation at the retirement home.

In a January 15, 2013 press release, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that OSHA and BNSF Railway Co. had reached an agreement for the company to revise personnel policies that violate the whistleblowers provisions of the Federal Railroad Safety...

On January 6, 2013 The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center was announced as the 2012 Tax Notes Person of the Year. Tax Notes also recognized nine others who were "contenders" for the title. Among the contenders was the National Whistleblower Center's...