We have also helped legislators draft state versions of the False Claims Act, such as Georgia's 2012Taxpayer Protection False Claims Act. The New IRS Whistleblower Program—Helping Close the Nation’s “Tax Gap” In the new IRS Whistleblower Program for tax whistleblowers, we were one of th...
Whistleblower Protection Another part of the False Claims Act is known as the whistleblower protection provision. This provision ensures that if you are fired, demoted, suspended, threatened, or discriminated against in any other way by an employer as a result of your filing a report of fraud,...
The whistleblowers Directive left Member States the choice to extend protection to whistleblowers who anonymously report violations of the law. Successive drafts of the Whistleblowers Act have alternately allowed or disallowed this possibility, subjecting it to the individual decision of the individual e...
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Such systems work best when their legal framework is well articulated and consistently enforced. The success of public sector anti-corruption fight depends on whistleblower protection, especially in countries where public sector corruption is systemic and endemic such as it is in the Eastern EU ...
Our insights from our clients’ experiences with the whistleblowing regime over the past five years include that greater clarity is required as to when a disclosure will be considered ‘in scope’ for protection, or when it is an excluded personal work-related grievance. Since ...
In California, whistleblowersare entitled to workplace protections under the California Whistleblower Protection Act (CWPA). This act allows some California agencies to look into and take action when a whistleblower reports a company’s wrongdoings or actions that break the law. ...
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Fraud related to stocks, securities, or commodities is covered under theSecurities Exchange Act and the Commodity Exchange Act. Both Acts were amended by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 to add significant whistleblower provisions, including protections and the ...