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FBI whistleblower Jane Turner appeared on Fox Business last night to speak about her experience as a whistleblower.

The Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) has released eleven (11) decisions issued in July, four (4) of which address substantive law.  That is down from seven (7) substantive decisions issued in July 2009. At this rate, it will...

Last week, the California Supreme Court issued a blunt decision decrying the way that employers and too many lower court abuse summary judgment to prevent employees from getting their cases to a jury.  The case is Reid v. Google, Inc.,...

The Ethics Resource Center has just released a report from its 2009 National Business Ethics Survey. The report, called "Retaliation: The Cost to Your Company and Its Employees," documents how companies that tolerate retaliation suffer increased levels of employee misconduct....

Alexei Dymovsky, a Russian police major, fed up with rampant corruption decided to use YouTube to report his grievances.

These provisions are designed to encourage private employees to report fraud. However, for all the good provisions in the bill, Congress still left out an important piece of the puzzle. They failed to include protection for federal employees.

Howard Lafranchi, of the Christian Science Monitor, has written an article about the considerations faced by national security whistleblowers. The article is called, "WikiLeaks: When is it 'right' to leak national security secrets?" Lafranchi lays out how the government is...

According to Reuters, whistleblower, Ralph Fabiano, sued German pharmaceutical manufacturing company, BAYER AG. Fabiano alleges that he was terminated from his position at the company for refusal to alter the results of particular auditing and accounting tests required under the...

There is bipartisan consensus that the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is dysfunctional, and instead of suggesting reforms, the OSC responded to this criticism by obfuscating its record.

The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued a decision this week that local government officials can be held liable for accusations they make against  citizens when it is "reasonably foreseeable" that their statements will cause the citizen to be...