• posted: Nov. 13, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights,  Graft and Corruption
• employee rights,  labor and employment law

Under the whistleblower provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), employees typically only have 30 days to file a complaint about employer retaliation. However, OSHA has now reached Read More

• posted: Nov. 10, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights,  Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,  Graft and Corruption
• employee rights,  Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

The Texas Supreme Court recently agreed to hear Shell Oil Co.’s pending defamation case. Robert Writt, a former Shell employee, sued the company for defamation after Shell submitted a report Read More

• posted: Nov. 06, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights,  Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,  Graft and Corruption
• employee rights,  labor and employment law

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Whistleblower has only been open since August 2011, yet it has already made a pretty big name for itself in Read More

• posted: Nov. 03, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights,  Graft and Corruption
• employee rights,  labor and employment law

While there are more laws in place than ever before regarding the fair treatment and protection of whistleblowers in the United States, there are still some government agencies that are Read More

• posted: Oct. 30, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights,  Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,  Graft and Corruption
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,  labor and employment law

Investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) can quickly become extremely costly. In fact, Walmart recently spent more than $439 million within a two-year span on these types of Read More

• posted: Oct. 27, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• Facebook,  National Labor Relations Act

One provision of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) states that employees are protected from any form of employer retaliation when they commit “concerted protected activity,” which essentially means any Read More

• posted: Oct. 23, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• FMLA,  wrongful termination

The Sixth Circuit Court recently affirmed a jury verdict in favor of an employee in a major Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) interference claim. According to the decision, FedEx Read More

• posted: Oct. 20, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• Medicare related business,  projection error,  Walgreens

Walgreen Co. CFO Wade Miquelon and another high-ranking executive in the company were let go from their positions after the revelation of a $1 billion projection error affecting the corporation’s Read More

• posted: Oct. 16, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• False Claims Act lawsuit,  fraud

There are numerous federal regulations requiring investigations into possible fraud, related to both mandatory disclosure and simply performing some fact gathering while seeking legal advice. The U.S. Court of Appeals Read More

• posted: Oct. 13, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• criminal behavior,  mismanagement,  theft

The Atlanta Department of Watershed Management recently conducted an internal investigation after reports of theft and mismanagement arose from within the organization. Soon afterward, the department fired 13 unnamed employees, Read More

• posted: Oct. 09, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• illegal,  internal investigation,  unethical

After potentially illegal or unethical wrongdoing is exposed within an organization, the most important step to take is to launch a comprehensive internal investigation. This can be a major challenge, Read More

• posted: Oct. 06, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• product safety

A pair of organizations that advocate for safe consumer products have asked for the unsealing of court documents related to a major whistleblower case. The case, recently declared a mistrial, is Read More

• posted: Oct. 03, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• Whistleblower Protection Act,  employee rights

A recent article in Fortune magazine explored the issue of whistleblowing and how it appears that women are more likely than men to call out illegal or unethical activities within Read More

• posted: Oct. 02, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• federal whistleblower law,  lawsuit

Two employees have filed a lawsuit against DynCorp International Inc., a private military contractor that specializes in aviation facilities, training and equipment. According to the complaint, the employees allege that Read More

• posted: Sep. 29, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• Dodd-Frank Act,  whistleblower protections

The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals made an important ruling in August, deciding that the whistleblower protections in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act do not cover individuals who work for Read More

• posted: Sep. 25, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• attorney-client privilege,  bribery,  Wal-Mart

The Delaware Supreme Court recently came to a decision in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Indiana Electrical Workers Pension Trust Fund IBEW to uphold the order given by the Delaware Court Read More