On Jan. 10, 2023, the Illinois legislature passed the Paid Leave for All Workers Act (the “Act”), S.B. 208. Governor J.B. Pritzker is expected to sign the Act into law soon. The Act will go into ef...

Health care employment law was once again a critical focus for many legislative bodies in 2022. While much of our 2021 Year in Review focused on how states addressed the COVID-19 pandemic itself, ...

Investigation finds Roger H. Bohannan DDS Inc. illegally fired two workers in 2020 NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TX – Two workers at a North Texas dental practice will share $15,706 in back wages to be pai...

Days after the Texas house speaker openly opposed using taxpayer dollars to settle a whistleblower suit against Attorney General Ken Paxton's office, a top agency lawyer said avoiding the payout wo...

Provost’s Forum speaker shares story of bringing accountability to Big Tech If you walk into a store and a precariously balanced ladder falls and injures someone, an attorney will argue in court t...

The former housing planner and grants coordinator in Staunton’s local government says the city isn’t spending money meant to assist low-income residents with housing needs because it is following ...

Release provision seems ‘overly broad,’ clarification needed Settlement class includes approximately 5,500 workers Knight Transportation Inc. truck drivers fixed some problems with a planned $40...

Jed Cain Partner The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) will soon weigh in on a landmark case regarding the government’s authority to dismiss whistleblower lawsuits brought by private citizens on its ...

XNet: We Ask That the Senate Amend the Law in Defense of Whistleblowers This article features Government Accountability Project’s Legal Director, Tom Devine, and was originally published here. Inte...

The nation's leading financial regulator is facing a transparency crisis of its own. According to a new study by a University of Kansas law professor, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission i...