Retaliation
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Bill Giving Whistle-Blower Protections to Federal Employees Signed Into Law
The act includes provisions that amend the scope of protected disclosures, tightens requirements for nondisclosure agreements, expands the penalties imposed for violating whistle-blower protections, and establishes a Whistleblower Protection Ombudsman position in certain federal agencies.
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University of Virginia Whistle-Blower Gets $819,000 Jury Award
Weihua Huang claimed he was retaliated against after he complained about Ming D. Li's misuse of federal research grants for a project on the genetics of nicotine and addiction.
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Former Assistant Football Coach McQueary Files Whistle-Blower Suit Against Penn State
McQueary alleged that Penn State terminated his employment as assistant football coach because of his cooperation with Pennsylvania Attorney General investigators.
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Ex-Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Exec: I Was Fired for Whistle-blowing
Clifford Jagodzinski alleged in a complaint filed last month that his firing in April by MSSB was “an action for unlawful retaliation under the Dodd-Frank Act,” as well as claims under state law.
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Financial Whistle-blowers: A New Employment Law Challenge
Employers should seriously consider all allegations of wrongdoing and proactively attempt to avoid litigation in the first instance. These goals can be achieved by coordinating human resources and compliance programs.
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Worker's Sleep Disorder Discrimination Claim Reinstated
Feldman filed suit against his employers on charges including violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and with engaging in retaliation once he returned to work.
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Trucking Firm Ordered to Reinstate Whistle-Blower, Pay $315,000
The award reflects $280,000 in back wages and interest, $15,000 in compensatory damages and $20,000 in punitive damages, OSHA said. The federal agency does not release the names of employees involved in whistle-blower complaints.
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Whistle-Blower Suit Involving Company's Visa Practices Dismissed
Judge Myron H. Thompson of U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama in Montgomery said while Palmer's charges are “deeply troubling,” there was no evidence that Bangalore, India-based Infosys had violated Alabama state law.
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Federal Employees Most Frequent EEOC Charge is Retaliation: Study
It is the fifth straight year that retaliation topped the list as being the most frequently alleged complaint.
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DOJ Sues Staffing Agency for Violating Immigration and Nationality Act
The complaint seeks a court order prohibiting future discrimination by the respondent, monetary damages to the employee and civil penalties.
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Data Bank Focus: Retaliation
U.S. law forbids employers from retaliating against an employee who blows the whistle on discrimination based on age; disability; genetic information; national origin; pregnancy; race or color; religion; sex; or sexual harassment.
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Data Bank Focus: Government Fraud
In January, the U.S. Justice Department celebrated the 25th anniversary of the 1986 amendment to the False Claims Act. The 1986 amendment allows the government to seek triple the amount of damages for fraud perpetrated by federal contractors, suppliers and service providers.
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Data Bank Focus On: Occupational Fraud
Occupational fraud—internal theft perpetrated by a company employee, manager, executive or owner—costs organizations on average 5 percent of their annual revenue, according to the latest fraud study from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
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Whistling While You Work
With changes in whistle-blower laws, companies must be even more diligent about protecting workers who speak out.
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Protecting Whistle-Blowers
The Hanford Concerns Council in Washington state was formed according to state mediation laws, and members include company representatives, advocacy group members and independent parties.
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How to Blow the Whistle
In most cases, employees know the right thing to do morally or ethically, but aren't sure how to discuss it. "The primary reason people don't speak up is fear of retaliation and fear of futility," says Mary Gentile, a research scholar at Babson College in Babson Park, Massachusetts.
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Coca-Cola Unit Sued for Alleged Racial Discrimination
The lawsuit charges that the 16 plaintiffs 'have suffered from the worst of its ills in terms of biased work assignments and allotment of hours, unfair discipline and retaliation, and a caustic work environment.'
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Ethics Group Warns of ‘Steep Declines’ in Workforce Trust
The ‘ominous warning signs’ of an ethics decline, says the Ethics Resource Center in a new survey, include a sharp increase in retaliation against employee whistle-blowers.
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Court: Warehouse Can't Fire Contract Workers
A California judge ruled the workers, who are suing the warehouse and staffing provider, would likely be able to prove the firing was retaliatory.
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Former Groupon Employees Countersue Over Contract Terms
The countersuit, filed Jan. 25, reveals an increasingly testy relationship between two high-profile Internet players: Google, the king of search advertising, based in Mountain View, California, and Chicago-based Groupon, the leader in the new online-advertising business with daily deals.
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Retaliation Charges Top EEOC Fiscal 2011 Filings
Sex discrimination charges, which were the second-most frequently filed charge, decreased 1.7 percent in fiscal 2011.
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Appeals Court Overturns Most of Dismissal in Same-Sex Harassment Suit
More men are alleging sexual harassment in the workplace, a trend many attorneys expect to continue.
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Pregnant Worker Protected by FMLA Despite Timing of Leave Request: Court
Although the woman had previously been considered a 'top employee,' after learning of her pregnancy 'Brookdale began harassing her, causing stress and other complications in her pregnancy.'
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High Court Upholds Religious School 'Ministerial Exception' to ADA Bias Charge
In its decision in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School vs. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission et al., the nation's highest court said the ministerial exception bars only employment discrimination lawsuits.
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EEOC Sues Wal-Mart for Disability Discrimination
Despite a 10-year-old settlement involving disability discrimination with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency has filed another lawsuit charging Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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Hertz Sued by Fired Muslim Drivers Alleging Religious Bias, Retaliation
Most drove shuttle rental cars for cleaning and refueling during the work day at Seattle's Sea-Tac Airport, while the remainder drove the vans that carried workers to and from the car transport locations.
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Suit Claims Worker was Fired for Refusing to Wear '666' Sticker
In March 2010, as a company's accidnt-free tally approached the number 666—identified in the 'Revelations' book of the Bible as 'the number of the beast' and a representation of Satan—the employee informed his supervisors that his religious beliefs wouldn't allow him to wear that number.
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Appeals Court Finds Retaliation Claim Against UPS Valid, but Judgment ‘Excessive'
The court said a $2 million judgment against the parcel service in the case was 'excessive,' because the company's actions only caused monetary harm to Keith Jones, a former UPS package car driver and plaintiff in Jones vs. United Parcel Service Inc.
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Teacher Alleges Retaliation by School District for Giving Newspaper Interview
A Long Island, New York, elementary school teacher has filed a lawsuit claiming her former employers tarnished her reputation and fired her after she gave an interview to a local newspaper.
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Health Reform May Outweigh Supreme Court's Light Employment Law Docket
The high court, which went back to work Oct. 3, has so far received petitions to review four separate health reform cases, and the Justice Department is expected to ask the court to overturn an August decision in which the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the law's individual mandate.
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EEOC Sues Fashion Boutique Delia's for Pregnancy Discrimination
The suspected harassment included constant questioning about some employees' ability to perform their jobs because they were pregnant, recommending they take leaves of absence or forcing them to take maternity leave early.
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EEOC: Bass Pro Discriminates Against Blacks, Hispanics in Hiring
The suit against the 60-store sporting goods retailer also says managers at locations including the Houston area and Louisiana ‘made overtly racially derogatory remarks acknowledging the discriminatory practices including that hiring black candidates did not fit the corporate profile,' said...
