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January 5, 2011Dr. Bonds can now pursue her federal court lawsuit claiming the NIH fired her in retaliation for exposing unauthorized cloning…- December 21, 2010Food safety workers gained federal whistleblower protections allowing them to report contamination without retaliation and pursue cases in court with…
- December 20, 2010A National Whistleblowers Center study found that qui tam statutes do not discourage internal reporting, with nearly 90% of eventual…
- December 15, 2010A prominent federal whistleblower and other government employees criticized the Senate's whistleblower protection bill for weakening existing safeguards and excluding…
- December 13, 2010The National Whistleblowers Center opposes a provision in Senate Bill 372 that would reverse protections allowing federal employees to report…
- December 11, 2010The bill grants the Merit Systems Protection Board authority to dismiss whistleblower claims without hearings based solely on agency affidavits,…
- November 25, 2010Bradley Birkenfeld, a UBS whistleblower who recovered billions for taxpayers, was imprisoned while thousands of tax evaders he exposed received…
- November 22, 2010The SEC's proposed whistleblower rules would paradoxically discourage reporting of securities violations and reduce the agency's access to crucial enforcement…
November 14, 2010Congress established a $451 million fund offering substantial bounties for tips about securities violations, aiming to encourage whistle-blowers to report…
November 10, 2010Corporate lobbyists from major companies are attempting to weaken whistleblower protections in the newly proposed Dodd-Frank rules, raising concerns that…