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Whistleblower Protections. The Department of Labor is here to protect your rights. An employer cannot retaliate against you for exercising your rights under the Department of Labor’s whistleblower protection laws. Retaliation includes such actions as firing or laying off, demoting, denying overtime or promotion, or reducing pay or hours.
addition to identifying laws that protect whistleblowers from retaliation, this report includes employee protection laws that prohibit retaliation against employees who engage in various protected activities, such as participating in an investigation or filing a complaint.
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.
The statutes enforced by OSHA are listed below. They contain whistleblower (anti-retaliation) provisions that generally provide that employers may not discharge or otherwise retaliate against an employee because the employee has filed a complaint or exercised any other rights provided to employees by the statute.
The statutes enforced by OSHA are listed in the Summary Chart linked here. They contain whistleblower (anti-retaliation) provisions that generally provide that employers may not discharge or retaliate against an employee because the employee has filed a complaint or otherwise exercised other rights provided to employees under the statute.
OSHA’s Whistleblower Protection Program enforces the provisions of more than 20 federal laws protecting employees from retaliation for, among other things, raising or reporting concerns about hazards or violations of various workplace safety and health, aviation safety, commercial motor carrier, consumer product, environmental, financial ...
The Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA), as amended, prohibits retaliation against most federal executive branch employees when they blow the whistle on significant agency wrongdoing or when they engage in protected conduct such as testifying before Congress. This resource covers the basics of the law’s protections
Create an effective anti-retaliation program. How to file a safety and health complaint. Find information on other workplace issues.
The False Claims Act (FCA) is America's first whistleblower law and one of the strongest whistleblower laws in the United States. Learn More. Reverse False Claims. In recent years, the False Claims Act has been applied in a new way: to instances in which a wrongdoer has prevented the government from collecting what it is owed.
As part of these services, the Office has compiled a list of U.S. and international best practice whistleblower law standards, including citations to bipartisan laws that exemplify each. Use the dropdowns below to explore the standards.