Adoption of a new law improving the protection of whistleblowers in companies with more than 50 employees. The law implements an EU directive and goes beyond the European requirements. New whistl...

Guaranteed confidentiality with regard to employee disputes may be becoming a thing of the past if the current tide of legislation continues. As we blogged about several weeks ago, Congress just ...

A Georgia city must face First Amendment violation accusations from its former fire chief who claims he was inappropriately fired, a federal judge said Wednesday, though he trimmed several claims ...

Physician Partners of America LLC agreed to pay a $24.5 million settlement to resolve allegations that it unlawfully overbilled federal health care programs, incentivized doctors to order unneces...

Hackensack Meridian Health and Englewood Health have given up their fight against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and dropped their plans for a merger. The proposed deal, first announced in la...

An overflow crowd at the Harley-Davidson Museum cheered the inauguration Wednesday of Cavalier Johnson — the first elected Black mayor in Milwaukee history — as he pledged to transform the city b...

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

Patisserie La Palme D’or assessed nearly $35K in penalties for willful disregard of law HONOLULU – A federal investigation recovered $153,070 in back wages and liquidated damages for 17 workers o...

A professor who says he was fired for being a rankings whistleblower has settled the lawsuit he brought against his former employer — and received not only exoneration but a big payday, too. Rich...

Jane Norberg, partner in the firm's Securities & Enforcement practice and former Chief of the SEC's Office of the Whistleblower, offers new considerations for the "Social" aspects of ESG. How...