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...
Whistleblower retaliation provisions in federal and state law are essential protections for employees who observe and want to bring to light wrongdoing on the part of their employers. Many of these whistleblower laws,...
Internal whistleblowing remains a fraught topic within the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the courts charged with interpreting the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. On the one hand, in an effort to assuage industry...
When whistleblowers report unlawful conduct in the workplace to management or regulators, they often face serious negative consequences to their careers and reputations. Employees who take these risks by refusing to ignore or...
Lawmakers Propose Additional Financial Whistleblower Protections
February 26, 2016
Financial whistleblowers found some support on Capitol Hill yesterday, when Senator Tammy Baldwin and Representative Elijah Cummings introduced the Whistleblower Augmented Reward and Non-Retaliation Act of 2016 (WARN Act),...
OSHA Will Fight For OSH Act Whistleblowers
February 26, 2016
It is critical that workers who report workplace injuries or dangerous conditions know that they can do so without fear of reprisal. Workers’ confidence in that knowledge was bolstered on February 22, 2016, when the...
IRS Doubles Whistleblower Awards, Proposes Program Improvements
February 25, 2016
The Internal Revenue Service Whistleblower Program (the “IRS Whistleblower Program”) is becoming more efficient and employee friendly, according to the IRS 2015 Annual Report to Congress (the “2015 Annual Report”),...