• posted: Feb. 05, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• opinions

Now that there are more protections available for whistleblowers than ever before, especially whistleblowers in federal agencies, opinions on the act of whistleblowing have also begun to shift in a Read More

• posted: Feb. 02, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• employee rights,  labor and employment

An oil inspector in Texas claims to have been wrongfully fired for reporting safety violations within his company and being subject to unfair retaliation in the time leading up to Read More

• 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

• posted: Dec. 29, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• labor and employment

Javier Soto was at one point a Ratings Benefits Services Representative for the St. Petersburg region office of the Department of Veterans Affairs. However, after he released a report that Read More

• posted: Dec. 25, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• labor and employment

A recently published study indicates that companies face much larger monetary penalties whenever a whistleblower is involved in enforcement actions against the company. In an average case, those companies paid Read More

• posted: Dec. 22, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• labor and employment

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla) recently presented a new piece of legislation that will protect the rights of whistleblowers within the auto industry, and offer them Read More

• posted: Dec. 18, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• labor and employment

Four years ago, Francis X. Dougherty was fired after revealing the existence of a $7.5 million no-bid security camera contract within the Philadelphia School District. Now, he has won a Read More