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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 ...
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 Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act of 2013 is a bill that would protect whistleblowers who report violations of United States antitrust law.The bill would have whistleblowers first file a retaliation claim with the United States Department of Labor before going to federal court. [1]
“If the official charged with protecting whistleblowers from retaliation was himself utterly vulnerable to retaliation and removal for taking on politically charged or inconvenient cases, then ...
The federal government hasn't done enough to keep whistleblowers like the Ford insider safe, writes an attorney. Feds must do more to protect whistleblowers from retaliation | Letters to the ...
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 ...
In the United States, for example, both state and Federal statutes have been put in place to protect whistleblowers from retaliation. The United States Supreme Court ruled that public sector whistleblowers are protected from retaliation by their First Amendment rights. [24]
The law expanded protections for whistleblowers, allowing them to report misconduct anonymously, as well as applying anti-retaliation protections to additional kinds of whistleblowers. Importantly, the law does not provide for rewards for whistleblowers.