Sentences with phrase «retaliate against whistleblowers»

If illegal activity is occurring in your workplace, you should be able to voice concern about it without fear of retaliation but, unfortunately, many employers retaliate against whistleblowers.

Meanwhile, the EPA has censored science on government websites and retaliated against whistleblowers, creating an Inquisition - like atmosphere for government scientists.

Teachers charged she sanctioned grade - fixing, credit schemes, Regents exam cheating, and retaliated against whistleblowers.

The transgressions of the Buffalo Urban League — submitting inflated bills to Erie County, failing to train employees, retaliating against whistleblowers — is an issue that Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz and fellow Democrats on the County Legislature are wishing would go away.

«Whistleblowers are an invaluable resource for weeding out waste, fraud and abuse - the last thing the government should be doing is paying the legal fees of contractors who've retaliated against whistleblowers,» McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a statement.»

The Lab retaliates against the whistleblower, who then files a claim against The Lab.

The Cooper Union requires Personnel to report to The Cooper Union good - faith concerns about behavior that appears to violate this Code, and under this Code a «Whistleblower» is the individual reporting such activity.The Cooper Union strictly prohibits any harassment, retaliation, or adverse employment consequences against any Whistleblower who, in good faith, reports a violation or suspected violation of this Code, and any person who retaliates against a Whistleblower is subject to appropriate disciplinary and corrective action, up to and including termination of employment in the case of an employee.

The Cooper Union requires Personnel to report to The Cooper Union good - faith concerns about behavior that appears to violate this Code, and under this Code a «Whistleblower» is the individual reporting such activity.The Cooper Union strictly prohibits any harassment, retaliation, or adverse employment consequences against any Whistleblower who, in good faith, reports a violation or suspected violation of this Code, and any person who retaliates against a Whistleblower is subject to appropriate disciplinary and corrective action, up to and including termination of employment in the case of an employee.

Not exact matches

The 45 - year - old alleges the company discriminated against him for his age and retaliated against him for acting as a whistleblower.

«When a whistleblower says something, they know that they're likely to be retaliated against,» she told HuffPost.

For example, the Illinois Whistleblower Act now prohibits an employer from not only retaliating, but also threatening to retaliate against an employee if the act or omission threatened would constitute retaliation under the Act.5

PARTNER MARK T. QUIGLEY, A NATIONALLY RESPECTED TRIAL ATTORNEY, has spent the past three decades championing the rights of whistleblowers and workers who've been terminated or retaliated against due to unlawful employment practices.

Whistleblower Act Both state and federal laws prohibit employers from retaliating against their employees (such as firing them) for whistle blowing.

If you tell on your company for its illegal actions and are fired or otherwise retaliated against, you can file a claim under the Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA).

The whistleblower sections of the Competition Act (s. 66.1 and 66.2) protect the identities of people who report competition law offences to the bureau and prohibit employers from retaliating against employees who, in good faith and on reasonable belief, report potential competition law offences.