• posted: Jan. 29, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• employee rights,  labor and employment

A pair of former brokers for Goldman Sachs & Company’s Los Angeles offices earned $7.6 million in monetary awards after filing a wrongful termination and discrimination suit against the company. Read More

• posted: Jan. 26, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• employee rights,  labor and employment

In retrospect, 2014 has to be considered a success for the whistleblower program run by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This year, whistleblowers who earned awards through Read More

• posted: Jan. 19, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• employee rights,  labor and employment

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) gave a MTA Metro-North railroad employee a record award under the Federal Railroad Safety Act after they suffered an injury in 2011. The Read More

• posted: Jan. 15, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• employee rights,  labor and employment

On December 15, the Court of Appeals for the state of Minnesota made a decision that reversed 20 years of precedent by extending the Minnesota Whistleblower Act’s statute of limitations Read More

• posted: Jan. 12, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• employee rights,  labor and employment

Since the establishment of the SEC Whistleblower Program, there have been a lot more highly publicized cases of whistleblowers coming forward and revealing wrongdoing within their organizations, specifically in regard Read More

• posted: Jan. 12, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• whistleblower cases

Since the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was enacted in 2010, there has been a significant rise in complaints filed under the Consumer Financial Protection Act (CFPA), Read More

• posted: Jan. 08, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• employee rights,  labor and employment

A federal judge is allowing an ex-fraud investigator for Dow Chemical Co. to pursue a wrongful termination claim. Kimberly Wood, who had worked for 25 years at Dow before the Read More

• posted: Jan. 07, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• anti-retaliation provisions,  Maine Whistleblowers Protection Act,  MHRA

Not all reports of internal wrongdoing are technically considered whistleblower actions. In 2013, the First Circuit Court established an important “job duties” exception related to the Maine Whistleblowers Protection Act. Read More

• posted: Jan. 05, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• employee rights,  labor and employment,  whistleblowers

In what is being considered a record, landmark case, a former bank executive at Countrywide Financial (now owned by Bank of America Corporation) was awarded $57 million for exposing the Read More

• posted: Jan. 01, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• labor and employment

A federal jury determined that Trinity Industries, a Texas-based guardrail manufacturer, must pay $175 million in penalties after a whistleblower alerted authorities to False Claims Act violations by the company.  Trinity Read More