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Several significant provisions to provide "whistleblower" protections to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and air industry employees, to close a potential loophole in the prosecution of hazardous materials cases, and to combat "air rage" incidents in flight, will also address real safety concerns we face today. [2]
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 ...
In 2013, a unanimous panel of three United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit judges ruled in favor of MacLean, instructing the MSPB to reassess whether his disclosure qualified for whistleblower protection. [13] The federal government appealed the Federal Circuit's decision to the Supreme Court of the United States. [14]
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 ...
Title 10, United States Code, Section 2409 (10 U.S.C. 2409), "Contractor Employees: Protection from Reprisal for Disclosure of Certain Information," as implemented by Title 48, Code of Federal Regulations, Subpart 3.9, "Whistleblower Protections for Contractor Employees," provides that an employee of a Defense contractor may not be discharged ...
Among other actions, the companies required employees to waive their right to potential whistleblower monetary awards, according to the SEC. SEC settles with 7 companies it says violated ...
Huffman v. Office of Personnel Management, 263 F.3d 1341 (Fed. Cir. 2001) [1] is a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit addressing a two decade-old conflict between the United States Congress and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit over the depth of whistleblower protection available to federal civilian employees covered by the Whistleblower ...
A whistleblower and former safety chief at a southern Indiana military installation said since he filed a report warning of potentially dangerous safety lapses, the U.S. Army and Navy have ...