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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 whistleblower’s central role in this unfolding story is no anomaly. In 2015, fresh off several automakers’ historic safety lapses — Takata’s exploding airbags and GM’s malfunctioning ...
One statute that is often confused as providing protection from reprisal for whistleblowing is the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act of 1998 (ICWPA), enacted as part of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 1999 and which amended the Inspector General Act of 1978, 5 U.S.C. App. § 8H . Despite its title, the ICWPA does not ...
The IRS paid out $36.1 million to whistleblowers in the fiscal year 2021, so the dollar amount went up in 2022. This proves that the IRS dishes out a decent amount to tax whistleblowers who ...
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 ...
In New Zealand the Protected Disclosures (Protection of Whistleblowers) Act 2022 [107] provides protection to whistleblowers under some circumstances. A wide range of workers are covered, including employees, volunteers and contractors, and the legislation covers both public and private sector organisations. [ 108 ]
President Trump's allies offered up a collective shrug in response to news of a second whistleblower coming forward about the president's Ukraine call.