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John Tuzyk, partner at Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP, says whistleblower programs with cash rewards represent the «continuing evolution» of the privatization of securities law enforcement that started with securities class actions.
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«I hope that my lawsuit against Chartwells and the settlement announced today will help improve the food programs for D.C.'s school children, which has always been my goal,» Mills said in a statement issued Friday by Phillips & Cohen, a District - based law firm that filed Mills's whistleblower lawsuit in 2013.
They are projecting their own conspiratorial behavior and their own lack of scientific integrity onto the science community,» CSW director Rick Piltz said in an interview on the whistleblower TV program Whistle Where You Work.
The partner at Stikeman Elliott in Toronto suggests that even though the commission says it doesn't mean for its whistleblower program to undermine internal compliance systems, that's just what the program could do.
Barbara Hendrickson of BAX Securities Law says internal reporting policies and the OSC's whistleblower program don't have to be inconsistent with each other.
«In my view, I think that financial rewards are likely the best way forward for regulators, and in any event, the criteria for obtaining a financial reward are difficult to satisfy — they provide a good counterweight to the concerns expressed by critics and act as a strong gatekeeper to prevent the misuse of the whistleblower program,» says Campion.
Royal says she understands the rationale for a whistleblower program, but she says it will be «a more interesting conversation to have in a year» to see if the OSC has struck the right balance.
«If the whistleblower says, «I'm in a small shop and we didn't have any program for this,» or, «I was legitimately afraid of retaliation and here is why, and I can explain that,» then of course they should still be able to qualify.»
The US NSA whistleblower said the Indian government agency responsible for the country's controversial Aadhaar program should be held responsible for putting the privacy of more than a billion Indians at risk.