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Dean Zerbe and Felipe Bohnet-Gomez presented remarks today at a public hearing on the IRS's proposed regulations on its Whistleblower Program.

Today on Forbes.com, Dean Zerbe, the National Whistleblower Center's Senior Policy Analyst, explains the potential issues that may be slowing or sidetracking submissions at the IRS Whistleblower Office.

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a major precedential decision in the case of Wiest v. Tyco Electronics Corp., establishing the standards for protecting corporate whistleblowers under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

The IRS Notice published in the Federal Register late on Friday, which gives the public two business days to respond, has further enraged whistleblower advocates.

Today the National Whistleblower Center filed an Amicus Curiae brief with the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), in the case of Day v. Department of Homeland Security. At issue is whether the new definition of a protected disclosure set forth...

The USDOL/OALJ Reporter has published case summaries and case links for cases decided in January 2013 by the Administrative Review Board.  The decisions are found at https://www.oalj.dol.gov/PUBLIC/ARB/REFERENCES/Caselists/01_2013.HTM

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.