Among the many laws that protect whistleblowing employees, the federal False Claims Act (FCA), and its counterpart state laws, are an important source of anti-retaliation protections. First enacted in 1863 to help prevent...
Transportation workers have to feel free to report safety hazards. That was the principle at the foundation of the recent finding by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in a...
4th Circuit Upholds SOX Whistleblower Protections
June 1, 2016
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals – which hears appeals from federal courts in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina – recently issued an opinion affirming a sizeable award to an employee who...
All discrimination, retaliation, and whistleblower claims have strict timelines – often within 180 or 300 days – for making complaints about such potential violations to the relevant government agencies. Employees of the...
The Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law has just published a fascinating new study analyzing over 4,000 employment suits filed in claims related to balancing employee’s...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Whistleblower Office announced on Friday, May 20, 2016, that it was issuing its third award in a week, this time awarding $450,000 to two individuals for information that...
If you have ever signed up for a credit card or checking account, then you are probably familiar with the lengthy, complicated contracts that typically accompany such consumer financial products. Because these contracts are...
SEC Whistleblower Office: Another Day, Another Award
May 18, 2016
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of the Whistleblower made its second multi-million dollar award announcement in less than a week on Tuesday, this time awarding over $5 million to a former company...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Friday, May 13, 2016, that it would award at least $3.5 million to an employee who provided the Commission with information relating to an ongoing investigation....
What must an individual do to receive protection from retaliation under the False Claims Act (FCA)? Seven years after major revisions to the FCA, the frustrating answer for plaintiffs, defendants and their counsel is “It...