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On September 23, 2019, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Joni Ernst (R-IA), and Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced the Whistleblower Programs Improvement Act (“WPIA”), S. 2529, to extend whistleblower...

Billionaire investment analyst Ken Fisher, founder and chairman of Fisher Investments, recently became the latest executive whose offensive views of women were made public.  His comments at the Tiburon CEO Summit revealed a...

The U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) has recently released four alerts aimed at encouraging whistleblowers to come forward with information about money laundering, insider trading, foreign corrupt...

Over the past two years, new legislation has enacted considerable reforms to the IRS’s whistleblower program and introduced protections for employees who report tax violations. The IRS Whistleblower Award Program The...

On August 12, 2019, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed into law the state’s latest changes to its civil rights statutes: amendments to the New York State Human Rights Law (“NYSHRL”) that increase protections...

In sexual harassment cases, in addition to monetary damages, victims often seek “injunctive relief” – in other words, an order from the court that their employer or harasser either take or stop some action. Courts have...

Recent settlements of age discrimination suits filed against major tech companies highlight a growing effort in the last few years to combat age discrimination in the technology sector. Last month, Google agreed to pay $11...

On May 3, 2019, in the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, a group of former female associates of the large law firm Jones Day brought a $200 million nationwide class action lawsuit alleging pervasive sex...

Judge Jesse M. Furman of the Southern District of New York ruled on July 11, 2019, that Jennifer Fischman, former Acting General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Mitsubishi Holdings America, Inc. (“Mitsubishi”),...

On July 9, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2515, also known as the Whistleblower Protection Reform Act of 2019 (“WPRA”). The WPRA is designed to address a gap in the whistleblower protections afforded...