whistleblower

Examples of whistleblower in the following topics:

• Protecting Whistleblowers

  • There exist several U.S. laws protecting whistleblowers, people who inform authorities of alleged dishonest or illegal activities.
  • Whistleblowers may make their allegations internally or externally to regulators, law enforcement agencies or the media.
  • The act promises whistleblowers a percentage of damages won by the government and protects them from wrongful dismissal.
  • Whistleblowers frequently face reprisal at the hands of the accused organization, related organizations, or under law.
  • Investigation of retaliation against whistleblowers falls under jurisdiction of the Office of the Whistleblower Protection Program (OWPP) of the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

• Whistleblower Protection

  • The Whistleblower Protection Act safeguards government employees from management retaliation.

• Ethical Issues at an Individual Level

  • Whistleblowing, for example, is a practice that gets quite a bit of both positive and negative media attention.
  • Whistleblowers are individuals who identify unethical practices in organizations and report the behavior to management or the authorities.
  • A whistleblower who behaves honestly, reporting a problem accurately, should be rewarded for their bravery and honesty, as opposed to punished and ostracized.

• The First and Fourth Amendments and Issues of Terrorism and Security

  • The Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act of 1998 is a statutory procedure for a "whistleblower" in the intelligence community to report concerns with the propriety of a secret program .

• Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002

  • Title VIII consists of seven sections and is also referred to as the "Corporate and Criminal Fraud Accountability Act of 2002. " It describes specific criminal penalties for manipulation, destruction or alteration of financial records, or other interference with investigations, while also providing certain protections for whistleblowers.

• Employment Policy

  • While most state and federal laws start from the presumption that workers who are not covered by a collective bargaining agreement or an individual employment agreement are "at will" employees who can be fired without notice and for no stated reason, state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination or protecting the right to organize or engage in whistleblowing activities modify that rule by providing that discharge or other forms of discrimination are illegal if undertaken on grounds specifically prohibited by law.

• Corporate Social Responsibility

  • Sarbanes Oxley is particularly interesting given Payne's compliance/integrity construct, in that it requires both integrity structures (such as a corporate board of ethics, and internal protections for whistleblowers) and increases fines for violation of anti-trust and other federal statutes regulating inter-state corporate behavior.