SCOTUS Affirms Right to Blow Your Whistle in Public Sector
- posted: Aug. 18, 2014
- Employee Rights
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not Read More
A Brief History of the False Claims Act
- posted: Aug. 14, 2014
- Employee Rights
Worse than traitors in arms are men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of Read More
Supreme Court to Take Up Kellogg Brown & Root Whistleblower Case
- posted: Aug. 11, 2014
- Employee Rights
It’s impossible to understate the importance of strict adherence to procedure when initiating a qui tam action under the False Claims Act. Unfortunately under our legal system, otherwise meritorious claims Read More
Illinois Municipality Concludes Probe on Hostile Work Environment
- posted: Aug. 07, 2014
- Employee Rights
Blowing the whistle does not always need to involve fraud and malfeasance. Sometimes a culture of apathy allows a hostile work environment to develop that can only be addressed with Read More
Public Sector Secrecy Rules Could Violate Federal Whistleblower Laws
- posted: Aug. 04, 2014
- Employee Rights
Whistleblower laws are intended to discourage corruption by granting legal protection and sometimes even financial incentives to employees who report corruption and other violations. However, these laws can sometimes be Read More
SEC Rulings Remind Whistleblowers of the Importance of Procedure
- posted: Jul. 31, 2014
- Employee Rights
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for the bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. — Thomas Sowell Proper procedures are of the utmost importance for whistleblowers Read More
DC Circuit Maintains Protections for Internal Investigations
- posted: Jul. 28, 2014
- Employee Rights
Supposing is good, but finding out is better. ― Mark Twain Many of the privileges the law recognizes against the compelled disclosure of information exist in order to promote candor. For Read More
Supreme Court Poised to Hear TSA Whistleblower Case
- posted: Jul. 24, 2014
- Employee Rights
The Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) plays a crucial role in our national safety infrastructure. Yet the agency has been subjected to significant criticism — and even been the butt of Read More
Food Safety Whistleblower Regulations on the Way
- posted: Jul. 21, 2014
- Employee Rights
Otto von Bismarck once said, “Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.” Fortunately, the government that makes the laws does want to see the Read More
Shady Record Keeping Not Just in the VA
- posted: Jul. 14, 2014
- Employee Rights
The nation was recently stunned by the revelation that Department of Veterans Affairs administrators were manipulating dates on records to conceal the unreasonable wait times veterans seeking medical care were Read More
Internal Revenue Service Reveals 2013 Whistleblower Figures
- posted: Jul. 10, 2014
- Employee Rights
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” In the more than two centuries since Benjamin Franklin expressed those words, taxes have become perhaps Read More
New Whistleblower Provisions Under the Affordable Care Act
- posted: Jul. 07, 2014
- Employee Rights
A great deal of controversy and media attention has certainly surrounded the Affordable Care Act (ACA), both before and after its passage. However, little if any of that attention concerned Read More
Supreme Court Extends SOX Whistleblower Protection to Contractors
- posted: Jul. 03, 2014
- Employee Rights
The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” Following a rash of financial calamities largely caused by risky and illegal Read More
Mediating with Whistleblowers Who Have Suffered Retaliation
- posted: Jun. 30, 2014
- Employee Rights
Winston Churchill once said, “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Whistleblowers take it upon themselves Read More
Whistleblower Retaliation at the Department of Veterans Affairs
- posted: Jun. 26, 2014
- Employee Rights
The Department of Veterans Affairs has been assaulted from all sides in light of recent revelations regarding the quality of care and administration cover-ups. With the alleged misconduct so pervasive, Read More
Ethical Challenges Lawyers Face Under Sarbanes-Oxley
- posted: Jun. 23, 2014
- Employee Rights
Deciding to report internal misconduct can be difficult for any employee or officer of an organization. For members of the legal profession, however, the decision can easily conflict with their Read More
