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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 ...
The Whistleblower Protection Act was made into federal law in the United States in 1989. 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 ...
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source. [3]The Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act of 2013 would prohibit discharging or in any other manner discriminating against a whistleblower in terms and conditions of employment because: (1) the whistleblower provided information to the employer or the federal government ...
Whistleblowers who hold public servants to account are protected by law -- but they often suffer consequences anyway. Here's everything you need to know:What's a whistleblower? It's a government ...
The addendum states that the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 (protecting public disclosures) and the Lloyd–La Follette Act of 1912 (protecting congressional communications) supersede any restrictive language in the gag order. The addendum even incorporates by reference the language of those and other related good government and national ...
The $787.5mn Dominion will receive from Fox in the settlement, which also comes with an acknowledgement of a court ruling from its cable channel Fox News that it aired false claims about Dominion ...
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).
(The Center Square) – IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler say a judge should not dismiss their defamation lawsuit against Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell. The lawsuit, filed in ...