Highlights FY 2022 accounts for the highest amount of money recovered from declined whistleblower cases in recorded history Although total recoveries under the False Claims Act declined, whistlebl...

A whistleblower in the Auburn University Black Student Union (BSU) claims to have retrieved a Google Doc from a group message associated with the organization, which lists over 250 racial slurs fo...

Yahoo Inc. will eliminate about 1,000 jobs beginning this week, the first round of cuts in a larger plan to restructure its advertising tech division amid a wave of layoffs in the industry. The com...

Indiana updated its unemployment insurance employer handbook on Jan. 31 to include tax rates and unemployment-taxable wage base information for 2023. Tax rates for positive-rated employers range fr...

Jim Jordan Details FBI Whistleblower Concerns: "I Have Never Seen ...

On February 7, 2023, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Brian M. Boynton, announced that the Civil Division recovered over $2.2 billion in settlements and judgments under the False Claims...

An Alabama federal district court denied AlaTrade, Inc.’s motion to dismiss a terminated 69-year-old poultry plant employee’s discrimination claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. H...

President Cyril Ramaphosa says government is working on mechanisms to improve protection for those who blow the whistle on corruption. “We are working to capacitate the Witness Protection Unit and...

On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed a new whistleblower law that significantly increases the risk and cost of whistleblower claims for domestic and overseas financial services institution...

Employee vs. Independent Contractor Issues As we previously covered, on October 13, 2022, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a proposed new rule for classifying workers under the ...