11 September 2024 ; According to the law, whistleblowers are individuals who choose to report irregularities within the institutions to which they belong. The legislation will set out a set of characteristics defining a whistleblower. These will be primarily such as: The reported information should include any signs of a law violation, such as a reasonable suspicion of a current or potential breach of the law, at a company where the whistleblower has been involved in the hiring process or other ...
Priorities : Whistleblowing, Countries : Italy · Hungary, Projects : Strengthening and fostering enabling environment for whistleblowers in the European Union (SAFE for Whistleblowers)
Changes to the law on non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), commonly used to protect sensitive... Yesterday it emerged that a number of staff at the CBI who reported sexual misconduct and...
Sections 47 and 48 of a 787 Boeing Dreamliner fuselage consist of the back four rows of the plane’s passenger seating, bathrooms, meal prep area, flight attendant seating, and rear exit doors. “Not the kind of thing you could sneak out on the back of a pickup truck,” says Rob Turkewitz, an attorney who represents the estate of John Barnett, the whistleblower who was found dead last month the morning he’d been scheduled to finish a deposition in his whistleblower lawsuit against the compa...
AIR21 is a federal law that protects aviation industry whistleblowers. Barnett claimed in the complaint that after he came forward with allegations that Boeing cut corners and used...
He claims things are so broken at high levels inside the nation’s premiere law enforcement agency that he had to blow the whistle. It stalled and may have effectively ended his career at the FBI. Whistleblowers, and their efforts to expose wrongdoing in industry or the government, expose waste and fraud, help change the world in countless ways. But, behind the headlines, the fate of the whistleblower is too often doomed. Now, there are new efforts in Congress to hel ...
On 14th June this year, almost 2 and a half years since the official deadline for full transposition, the Act on the Protection of Whistleblowers was adopted by Parliament. The new law will enter into force on 25 September with some provisions for external reporting due to ent ...
noting that one of the whistleblowers has lost his retirement coverage after 30 years of federal service. One such DHS official in the Biden-Harris administration, the whistleblowers allege...
Litigator, teacher, and scholar Stephen Kohn presents a comprehensive, unified examination of the 35 federal laws that protect whistleblowers and their rights, plus the common law protections availabl
Whistleblowers who report securities or commodities fraud to a self-regulatory organization can qualify for awards under SEC or CFTC Whistleblower Reward programs.