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Whistleblower protection laws and regulations guarantee freedom of speech for workers and contractors in certain situations. Whistleblowers are protected from retaliation for disclosing information that the employee or applicant reasonably believes provides evidence of a violation of any law, rule, regulation, gross mismanagement, gross waste ...
The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, 5 U.S.C. 2302(b)(8)-(9), Pub.L. 101-12 as amended, is a United States federal law that protects federal whistleblowers who work for the government and report the possible existence of an activity constituting a violation of law, rules, or regulations, or mismanagement, gross waste of funds, abuse of authority or a substantial and specific danger to ...
Whistleblower Protection Act; Whistle Blowers Protection Act, 2011 This page was last edited on 11 April 2013, at 17:35 (UTC). Text is ...
A three-day administrative hearing was held in July this year to determine whether Mendias’ speech was protected under the state’s whistleblower act and whether the disciplinary action against ...
A former member of Iowa's Board of Parole is not protected by state whistleblower laws and cannot sue to get her position back, a judge has found. ... is that the whistleblower laws Kooiker cites ...
NWC operates three main programs: (1) providing whistleblowers with legal assistance, (2) advocating for policies that protect and reward whistleblowers such as the Dodd–Frank Act, the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, and the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, and (3) educating the public about the importance of whistleblowers to preserving democracy and the rule of law. [3]
Whistleblowers fired for reporting government waste can recover for noneconomic damages, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, in a decision that could open the door to suits that ...
The Act was thus the first federal law enacted specifically to protect whistleblowers. The history and scope of the Act was further described by the Supreme Court of the United States in Bush v. Lucas , 462 U.S. 367, 103 S.Ct. 2404 (1983).