Tenet Healthcare has agreed to a $29.7 million civil settlement over whistleblower claims of physician kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals at its Detroit Medical Center subsidiary, the Dep...

Seyfarth Synopsis: A federal district court held that “boot-up” and “shut-down” time in a call-center environment is de minimis and therefore not compensable. It has been hornbook law since the ear...

The producer of “Black Spartans,” a film about the mid-1960s Michigan State national championship football team, temporarily shook off claims that he stiffed members of the production company. Emp...

Last week the campaign to make National Whistleblower Day permanent announced a milestone in its organization’s efforts. Since March, the grassroots, whistleblower-led campaign has organized its s...

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California workers who report violations of the law to their supervisors can qualify for whistleblower protections, even if the employer already knew about the violations, the California Supreme C...

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Patrick Ryan / DCist/WAMU Prince George’s County restaurants could receive thousands of dollars if owners commit to raising employee wages to $15 per hour by the end of the year and apply to a new...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously revived whistleblower lawsuits claiming that supermarket and pharmacy chains SuperValu and Safeway overcharged government health-care pr...