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Whistleblowers — people who expose wrongdoing within their organizations — play a crucial role in holding governments and corporations accountable. But speaking up can come at a cost. People who report misconduct often face retaliation, job loss, or legal threats, making whistleblowing risky and challenging. And when legal protections for whistleblowers are weakened, the risks only grow.
That’s exactly the situation many workers face today.
In the US, a Trump administration executive order threatens to effectively strip thousands of federal workers’ rights to whistleblower protection. The executive order is part of a larger effort to reclassify civil servants as “at-will” workers who can be sacked at any time for any reason. While federal workers have enjoyed protection against whistleblower reprisal for decades, those safeguards are now under threat. And this comes as private-sector whistleblowers have increasingly faced reprisal, too.
Yet while the risks are...
Joo Hak-nyeon, formerly of the group The Boyz, has once again expressed his indignation over allegations of sexual transaction, claiming that there were unfair demands from his agency in the conte...