Labor Department readies whistleblower-rights bill.Focuses on the initiative of the United States Department of Labor to launch proposed legislation protecting the rights of whistleblowers in the country. Insufficiency of legal protection in existing whistleblowing laws....
As a Senior Executive Service employee within DHS, Mr. Murphy is protected by the implementing regulations of PPD-19, as well as the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 and the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013...
“I did a study way back when, when we were doing environmental whistleblower cases, of every Department of Labor case in which there was a whistleblower under the nuclear and environmental law. I read every one and analyzed them. And I came to the conclusion that the wh...
Junemann, a labor union president, was a member of the Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health,first established by President Richard Nixon. It is one of five panels created by law to advise the labor secretary on how to improve health, safety and whistleblower protections in...
First came the president’s firing of Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community inspector general who advanced a whistleblower report on how the Trump administration withheld congressionally authorized funds to Ukraine. Shortly after that, the president demoted Defense Department acting Inspector General...
(IRS) and other government agencies saw increased reporting since implementing similar whistleblower protections. CAARA is a tool that can be used to encourage early reporting and cooperation because of the legal protection it offers to whistleblowers, furthering the PCSF’s goals to deter and ...
How does the Department of Justice respond to whistleblower complaints? Does the Department of Justice regulate courtrooms? How does judicial review work? How does judicial review protect individual rights? Does the Department of Justice include district courts? How is the Department of Labor constitut...
The lecture, introduced by Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, was given by Azmat Khan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for the New York Times. Her talk, “The Human Toll of America’s Air Wars,” offered evidence that despite U.S. military and government claims that...
University of Scranton, B.A., 1978 Practice Areas Litigation Employment Litigation Workplace Retaliation and Whistleblower Defense Executive Compensation, Employee Benefits, and ERISA Employment Counseling and Preventive Advice Employment Law Pay Equity Litigation Traditional Labor and the National Labor Relati...
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: May 2, 2022 ~ Last Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the