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Public health researcher Celeste Montorton (of George Washington University's School of Public Health) has posted an extensive commentary on the whistleblower issues raised during last week's OSHA Listens public hearing.  Through her The Pump Handle blog, she appreciates the criticism...

Today's Washington Post (Metro page B-1) reports on "a blunt assessment" of Washington DC's Metro transit administration.  Retired Metro manager David L. Gunn wrote the report.  Among other problems, it finds a "shoot the messenger" phenomenon "that discourages employees from...

The Village of North Syracuse, New York, has agreed to pay former police officer Michael Stassi $260,000 to settle his whistleblower retaliation lawsuit.  Stassi had to blow the whistle in 2005 on time card cheating by his superiors. Syracuse.com reports...

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...