Whistleblower

The Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA) of 1989 demonstrates several strategies that can be enforced to protect whistleblowers. A major way to protect whistleblowers is to ensure that they are aware of the proper channels for reporting misconduct by an employer, including any retaliation tactics that are used against the whistleblower. In addition, policy changes (e.g. WPEA) have made it easier for employees to report…

The Obama Administration put into effective the ITP in 2011,”To surveil the federal employees and to monitor their moves at work to prevent National Security leaks.” The administration has ordered the “whistleblowers” to report suspicious behavior within the agencies; agencies from the Peace Corps to the Department of Education. Even scientific theories and Think Tank groups have determined the ITP to be ineffective. They’re goal is to prevent future disasters…

The law of Sarbanes-Oxley law of whistleblowers has a provision for protecting corporate whistleblowers for giving information about all sorts of frauds such as fraud in security, shareholder, banking fraud, an abuse of any SEC decree or mailing fraud. Such owes to the condition that the employee must not display in any…

treatment of complaints received by the whistleblowers concerning auditing matters, internal accounting controls, or accounting. Also, the complaints have to be treated confidentially by the audit committee by making whistleblowing procedures for the submission around dubitable accounting or auditing matters to be anonymous. To encourage this, the audit committee should make and control an effective corporate whistleblower hotline by proving to whistleblowers the secrecy of their complaints.…

The FCA should be carefully considered by potential whistleblowers as the statute of limitations could be as little as six years. The statute of limitations is critical in all cases and can have a severe impact on whether or not a claim can be sought under the FCA. In most cases is best done with an experienced…

apply to nonprofit businesses: whistleblower protection and forbidding the destruction, alteration, or concealment of documents or the impediment of investigations. Section 806 created a new federal anti-retaliation protection for corporate whistleblowers. It protects those who report alleged violations relating to mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, securities fraud, or any rule/regulation of the of the…

organization of some wrongdoing. Some organization’s secret unethical acts could endanger the employees, society, animals or the environment. Almost in all of the whistleblowing cases, the employee loses his or her job at the current workplace. Whistleblowers’ ethical action comes with the cost of losing their job. Therefore, future Petroleum Engineers need to understand the ethics behind whistleblowing.…

no reason at all” (Cihon, 2014). Exceptions to employment-at-will includes whistleblowers, public policy exception and implied employment contracts. A whistleblower is an employee who reports his/her employer’s illegal activities to the appropriate governmental entity or, under some state statutes, to the board of directors or senior management of the firm (Cihon, 2014). Many federal and state statutes protect whistleblowers by making retaliation an illegal act. Although the employee is…

25 to 30 percent of the total recovery. When discussing whistleblowers, private citizens have also proven to be a critical resources of the government in that these individuals bring to light evidence pertaining to fraud that would have otherwise gone undetected. More than one-half of the $48 billion recovered since 1986 has come from False Claims Act lawsuits initiated by whistleblowers. These same whistleblowers have been paid upwards of $5.3 billion in statutory rewards for…

wrongdoing and some of the arguments for or against. When it comes to the release of information detailing unconstitutional government wrongdoing there can be people very much for it and some vehemently against it. There will be some who support the whistleblower and applaud their moral…