• posted: Aug. 11, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination,  Covid-19
• employer retaliation,  whistleblower retaliation,  covid-19,  workplace safety

A judge awarded a former U.S. Forest Service firefighter $115,000 in back pay, siding with the firefighter in his whistleblower retaliation claim against the Forest Service. The firefighter, Pedro Rios, claimed Read More

• posted: Aug. 09, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination,  Covid-19
• employer retaliation,  wrongful termination lawsuit,  covid-19

The former chief of the Sacramento Fire Department, Gary Loesch, recently filed a $10 million wrongful termination suit against the city, claiming he was deliberately exposed to COVID-19 as a Read More

• posted: Aug. 04, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• resignation letter

Sg. David “Kawika” Hallums of the Honolulu Police Department said he was removed almost immediately after being sworn in as the vice president of the State of Hawaii Organization of Read More

• posted: Jul. 26, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination
• sexual orientation discrimination

Brian Ball, a former trainer for the Chicago White Sox who worked for the team for 20 years, filed a lawsuit against the team and its general manager Rick Hahn, Read More

• posted: Jul. 19, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• retaliation,  discrimination,  adverse action

An “adverse employment action” such as wrongful termination, denial of a raise or promotion, denial of benefits or assignment to less-attractive duties could play an important role in a whistleblower’s Read More

• posted: Jul. 07, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• employee wrongdoing,  trade secrets

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. recently settled a lawsuit against a former engineer it had alleged stole confidential information before taking a job with a competitor. The former employee was Gaurav Kathuria, who Read More

• posted: Jul. 05, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• world bank

A recent investigation by the World Bank Administrative Tribunal found that the World Bank failed to take appropriate action to protect a pair of employees who filed sexual harassment complaints Read More

• posted: Jun. 28, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• wrongful termination lawsuit,  whistleblower claim,  retaliation claim

A former firefighter from Montebello, California recently filed a federal whistleblower wrongful termination suit worth more than $5 million. That firefighter, Vernon Creswell, already won a $2.6 million payout from the Read More

• posted: Jun. 14, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act,  CPSIA

Are you aware of fraudulent activity within a consumer products company, or an inherent danger of a product the company is trying to conceal? It is important to know your Read More

• posted: Jun. 09, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• employment discrimination,  discrimination,  religious discrimination

Quest Diagnostics agreed to pay $90,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a Rockwall-based phlebotomist. In addition, the company Read More

• posted: Jun. 07, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• caregiving discrimination

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently released new guidance warning employers against engaging in various forms of caregiving discrimination. The term “caregiving discrimination” refers to any discrimination in a Read More

• posted: Jun. 02, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation

The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently ordered Pegasus Elite Aviation, a private aviation company, to pay an employee back wages and other costs Read More

• posted: May 31, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• documentation

Recent years have seen a significant rise in whistleblower reports being made to agencies like the SEC and CFTC. For these cases to be successful (many of which have), it Read More

• posted: May 24, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower awards,  #metoo movement,  whistleblower reports

Best Lawyers recently had a thoughtful article in its “All Rise” newsletter in which they tied a seeming increase in whistleblower reports (specifically SEC whistleblower reports) to the #MeToo movement Read More

• posted: Apr. 28, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• Bureau of Prisons,  Federal Prisons,  prison abuse

The federal Bureau of Prisons is under fire for a new set of scandals, including allegations staff and a warden routinely sexually abused inmates at a women’s prison. Now, whistleblowers Read More

• posted: Apr. 26, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination
• Louisiana State Trooper,  Wrongful Termination Suit

Former Louisiana State Trooper Carl Cavalier formally appealed his termination from the department, a day after the State Police fired him in what he says was an act of wrongful Read More