Yet it is government - created backlogs and delays and tight new rules that are the problem here, even if that very government has pointed the finger at its own employees on occasion to cover up its poor decision - making, and gone after conscientious
whistle -
blowers who object to being ordered to
treat EI claimants unfairly.
According to Judith P. Swazey and Stephen R. Scher, «The
whistle -
blower may be — and within his group usually is — perceived and
treated as a Judas Iscariot who has committed a disloyal, indeed treasonable act» (Whistleblowing in Biomedical Research [1982], p. 179) The problem is frequently compounded by a sort of double - agent masquerade: some nay sayers, looking for credentials, claim to be whistleblowers.