The Department of Justice's new Criminal Division Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program is taking aim at money laundering, health care fraud and domestic and foreign bribery.
A recently signed law creates a rebuttable presumption than an employer has unlawfully retaliated against an employee if the employer takes adverse actions shortly after the employee engaged in certain protected activities.
Temporary workers in New Jersey will have greater protections against unpaid wages, unsafe working conditions, unlawful deductions, and other forms of mistreatment under the recently signed Temporary Workers' Bill of Rights.
The Department of Labor found the company violated the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's whistleblower protection provisions by improperly terminating a manager who voiced concerns about financial misconduct.