What You Need to Know The SEC's whistleblower program is paying large sums to lawyers who once worked at the agency, a new study found. Repeat players have come to dominate the market for repres...

A few years ago, $15 an hour would have been enough pay for small businesses to offer an entry-level employee. Today, it's often not enough. Renee Walrath, president of Walrath Recruiting, said b...

On 27 July 2022, the federal cabinet adopted the draft for a Whistleblower Protection Act (HinSchG). This draft is intended to implement Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and th...

Patrick B. Cage, former general counsel of Chicago State University, alleged he was fired for blowing the whistle on what he believed was a conflict-of-interest by a trustee that violated a board ...

Maranatha Human Services Inc., a Poughkeepsie nonprofit that provides housing and rehabilitation services to people with developmental disabilities, has agreed to pay New York and the federal gov...

A federal judge in New York approved a $100,000 tax fraud settlement between the state and global headhunter Egon Zehnder over the objections of a whistleblower who initiated the suit. The whistl...

On August 26, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-2 to approve two rule changes to its highly successful whistleblower program. The changes are meant to better incentivize w...

$22 million includes back pay, front pay, lost bonuses, interest Wells Fargo disagrees with OSHA findings, plans to appeal Wells Fargo must pay a former commercial banking senior manager more t...

September 1, 2022. The United States Department of Justice settled two civil fraud cases against an optical lens manufacturer, marketer, and distributor Essilor regarding allegations that the com...

Wells Fargo has been ordered to pay an employee more than $22 million for allegedly improperly terminating the Chicago area-based commercial banking senior manager in violation of the whistleblow...