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The New Jersey Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in a case where whistleblower Joyce Quinlan is asking for reinstatement of her $10 million jury verdict. An appellate court had vacated the verdict finding that Curtiss-Wright was justified in firing...

Sherron Watkins became a Time Magazine Person of the Year in 2002 (with Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom and Coleen Rowley of the FBI) after blowing the whistle on Enron's house of cards. Now she has published a review of No...

The Australian Law Reform Commission recommended that national security whistleblowers should face criminal sanctions only when their disclosures, "damage national security, interfere with an investigation and endanger someone's life or safety." The Commission also recommended that a new law create...

Jane Turner had worked as a Special Agent for the FBI for twenty years.  She led efforts to force the FBI to provide protection for child sex crime victims on the North Dakota Indian Reservations. She also reported theft of...

Even though the MSPB continues to utterly fail to be a fair arbiter of federal employee cases, the Senate is proposing to give the MSPB more power to decide cases in favor of federal employers. In S. 372, the so-called...

The Senate Homeland Security Committee promised changes would be made to the bill's flaws, but changes have not come.

FBI whistleblower Fred Whitehurst and an attorney for federal managers, Bill Bransford, spoke with Federal News Radio yesterday. They presented different sides of the argument about the Senate version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA), S. 372. Whitehurst decried...

A number of prominent national security whistleblowers and advocacy groups release a letter today opposing the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 372) until corrections are made to the national security provisions.

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) is conducting its public hearing all day today.  The "OSHA Listens" event is also available by webcast. Assistant Secretary Dr. David Michaels opened the event by decrying the 5,000 fatalities American workers suffer...

Uganda's The New Vision reports that the country's Parliament is debating a Whistleblower Bill to protect disclosures of public and private corruption.  Legislators are debating whether protected disclosures should be made to regional officials or to national offices.  Perhaps someday...