NEW YORK — Major League Baseball agreed to pay minor leaguers $185 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging violations of minimum wage laws, a case that progressed through the courts for eigh...

Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes NEW YORK — Major League Baseball agreed to pay minor leaguers $185 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging violations of minimum wage laws, a case that progr...

On July 15, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced two whistleblower awards totaling more than $6 million. Each whistleblower provided the SEC with original information that ...

Whistleblower Developments is a periodic report covering significant cases, decisions, proposals, and legislation related to whistleblower statutes and how they may impact your business. Brink’s ...

Annnnd We're Back: Legislative Update. We appreciate this audience bearing with us as this newsletter has been on a short hiatus in light of some scheduling issues. During that brief respite nume...

Nick Williams, a former award-winning employee at American Express, told Newsmax that the company fabricated a fake story accusing him of racism and then attempted to buy his silence. "It all sta...

Time for Compliance in an Altered Work Environment As companies continue settling into their new working environments—remote, hybrid, or fully back in the office—there remain a number of challeng...

1st Circuit Where a defendant employer moved for summary judgment on a plaintiff employee’s whistleblower retaliation claim under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (18 U.S.C. §1514A), that motion should hav...

On July 8, 2022, in Gist v. ZoAn Management, Inc., the Oregon Supreme Court affirmed the decisions of the trial court and court of appeals granting the defendants’ motion to compel arbitration. T...

A prospective investor who was a suspicious of an investment that was pitched to them is getting a US$3 million whistleblower award after tipping off regulators. The U.S. Securities and Exchange ...