Employment Policies, Whistleblowers, Adverse Employment Action

Can an Employee Claim Retaliation for Whistleblowing When They Were Simply Doing Their Job?

Littler on 7/9/2025

Assume the following, you ask your company’s in-house counsel to handle a highly sensitive matter involving bribery of foreign officials. The employee is given access to confidential attorney-client privileged information...more

Massachusetts Federal Judge Rules that Protected Activity Does Not Shield an Employee from the Consequences of Engaging in...

Epstein Becker & Green on 11/28/2023

On November 13, 2023, in USA ex rel, Morgan-Lee, et al. v. The Whittier Health Network, LLC, et al., a Massachusetts federal district judge concluded that although the plaintiff engaged in protected activity when she raised...more

Protected Activity or Terminable Misconduct? — Government Contractor Update

Polsinelli on 10/25/2019

It has become almost routine for employees pursuing whistleblower and other employment-related claims against their employer to engage in "self-help discovery," using their access to files and databases to collect and gather,...more

Ill. Federal Court Grants Summary Judgment on Whistleblower Retaliation Claims

Proskauer - Whistleblower Defense on 10/7/2019

On September 27, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted a defendant-employer summary judgment on a whistleblower retaliation claim under the Illinois Whistleblower Act (“IWA”) and on a...more

Implied Rights in Whistleblower Policies: What DC’s Latest Ruling Means for Employers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/14/2015

On March 18, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on a motion to dismiss in a case that will have potentially serious consequences for D.C. employers that include written whistleblower and other...more

Panel Discussion: Investigations and Employee Discipline

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 5/21/2014

Hypothetical #1: Company provides accounting and consulting services to businesses, including some public companies. Erin (Employee) has worked for Company for 12 years and has acceptable performance reviews. She has...more

Quirky Question # 227, New Bells and Whistles in Minnesota Statute

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 5/1/2014

We have an employee who we have been planning to terminate because of performance issues. This employee may have realized this was coming because he recently sent an email to a number of people claiming that our company...more

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