U.S. District Court Where a plaintiff has alleged discrimination on the basis of age and disability, a motion by the defendants for judgment on the pleadings should be allowed because the termina...

San Diego-based company purchased technology secretly created by engineer on its payroll A former Qualcomm research engineer and three others have been charged for defrauding the tech giant of $1...

Case law updates Discrimination – philosophical belief: Last year, in a well publicised case, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) determined (as a preliminary issue) that a claimant's view that ...

THE Coalition for Whistleblower Protection and Press Freedom (CWPPF) has called on the Federal Civil Service to protect a whistleblower, Richard Oghenerhoro. The coalition made the call in a stat...

Federal prosecutors acting on disclosures of a whistleblower moved to seize $700,000 in a civil asset forfeiture case alleging a former information technology employee defrauded Saint Francis Min...

In late July, a group of Heine Brothers’ Coffee workers gathered downtown to speak about their jobs. They weren’t there for a hiring event, or to promote the company. Instead, they criticized the...

Oregon state lawmakers allocated $6 million to community groups this year to help with what they’ve called a humanitarian crisis for workers in the state’s cannabis industry. In the basement of a...

Colorado paid $387,000 in an attempt to resolve a whistleblower lawsuit filed against the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment by the state’s former disease control and public he...

Wisser v. CEM International Management Consultants Ltd. 2022 ABQB 414 is a recent decision from the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench where a dismissed employee was able to get a reasonable...

Regardless of whether the employer and employee have an arbitration agreement, California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing is not required to arbitrate a dispute if it did not agree to...