• posted: Aug. 29, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• whistleblower awards

When corporate executives, government employees, or simple truck drivers decide to report regulatory violations or illegal activity, they assume serious risks of loss of livelihood, alienation of friends and even Read More

• posted: Aug. 26, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• US whistleblower protection enhancement act

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. -Harry S. Truman In April 2013, Jonathan Landay, a reporter for McClatchy, the third-largest newspaper publisher Read More

• posted: Aug. 22, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• US whistleblower protection enhancement act

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. -Aesop Daniel Ellsburg, Karen Silkwood, and W. Mark Felt are usually glorified as brave whistleblowers who risked everything for the Read More

• posted: Aug. 19, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• office of the whistleblower,  Tax Relief and Health Care Act

When a person assumes the role of a whistleblower to stop the illegal and fraudulent activity of a corporation or governmental agency, it is understood that there may be harsh Read More

• posted: Aug. 15, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• SEC whistleblower program

Cheryl D. Eckard was drug giant GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) quality manager. In 2002, she was sent to the company's primary plant in Puerto Rico to fix problems cited by the U.S. Read More

• posted: Aug. 12, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• Texas Medical Board

In September 2011, Texas enacted a law prohibiting anonymous complaints to the Texas Medical Board (TMB). Whether the new law has dissuaded people from filing complaints about medical professionals requires Read More

• posted: Aug. 08, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• False Claims Act

The top 30 False Claims Act settlements of 2012 totaled $9,094,474,000. Initiated by whistleblowers, the top three settlements involved $3 billion from GlaxoSmithKline for illegal marketing of prescription drugs, $1.5 Read More

• posted: Aug. 05, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• biggest whistleblowers

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. -Horace Mann From preventing human beings from being used like laboratory animals to revealing multi-million dollar price fixing, whistleblowers often sacrifice Read More

• posted: Aug. 01, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• Texas Whistleblower Act

Gertrud Moreno was an assistant vice-president and comptroller of Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK). She claimed that her supervisor, Thomas Saban, terminated her after she reported to TAMUK’s president that Saban’s Read More