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In 2009, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report stating that employees who reported illegal activities did not receive enough protection from retaliation by their employers. Based on data from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration , only 21% of the 1800 whistleblower cases reviewed by the agency in 2007 had "a ...
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The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a nonprofit whistleblower protection and advocacy organization in the United States. It was founded in 1977 by the Institute for Policy Studies . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
On the micro level, it is a resource that the Government Accountability Project (GAP) has consistently used in challenging gag orders and retaliatory investigations to enforce them. [citation needed] On the macro level, however, the anti-gag statute suffers from the same defect as the Lloyd Lafollette Act: it is a right without a remedy.
The All Circuit Review Extension Act extended from two to five years after the effective date of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (i.e., December 27, 2012), the period allowed for: (1) filing a petition for judicial review of Merit Systems Protection Board decisions in whistleblower cases, and (2) any review of such a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...