The CFTC’s commitment to curbing commodity futures trading violations is exemplified by its Whistleblower Program: when a whistleblower provides original information that leads to a successful investigation and results in...
FRSA Whistleblower Scores Win Despite Possible Wrongdoing
March 29, 2016
The following scenario should be familiar to railroad employees: An employee sustains a workplace injury; the employee reports the workplace injury to the railroad; the railroad conducts an investigation into the injury; the...
How to Prove Causation in a Whistleblower Termination Claim
March 24, 2016
When an employee reports wrongdoing to her employer, it is only natural for her to fear what the consequences of that reporting might be. Employees are protected from whistleblower retaliation under a number of federal and...
How to Tell if You’re a Victim of Workplace Retaliation
March 22, 2016
Most whistleblower accounts start out the same. You are working for a company, anywhere from the mail room to an executive position, and you notice employment practices that aren’t quite right. Many employees might turn the...
OSHA Backs Employee in Whistleblower Fight with Lear Corp.
March 17, 2016
In an unexpected policy shift that should encourage whistleblowers and those concerned about workplace safety, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has begun aggressively pursuing lawsuits under a whistleblower protection...
Monetary Sanctions and Award Percentage: Understanding the CFTC Whistleblower Program
March 16, 2016
As you know from our discussion last week that outlined the aims of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Whistleblower Program, the 2012 initiative promises to pay CFTC whistleblowers 10% to 30% of monetary...
The SEC’s commitment to curbing abuses of the financial system is exemplified by its Whistleblower Reward Program: when a whistleblower provides information that leads to a successful investigation and results in sanctions...
Transportation Whistleblower Awarded Payment under the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982
March 10, 2016
On March 3, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ordered Jake Rieger Farms LLC to pay $55,000 in wages and damages for terminating a truck driver who refused to violate state law. An Iowan truck...
SEC Issues $2 Million Award to Three Whistleblowers
March 8, 2016
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on March 8, 2016, that it would pay almost $2 million to three whistleblowers for information they provided that led to a successful enforcement action. The awards...
For the time being, it might be helpful to think of the Commodity Future Trading Commission’s whistleblower reward program as the younger sibling of the more well-known SEC Whistleblower Program. Like the SEC program, the...