Along with the Dodd-Frank Act’s expansion of Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower protections, the Assistant Secretary of Labor David Michaels’s announcement of a comprehensive review of the DOL’s treatment of whistleblower claims suggests a continuing trend toward greater protection for corporate whistleblowers.  In an article, “Feds dismiss post-Enron tips of fraud,” the Center for Public Integrity’s Michael Hudson [...]

In a dramatic effort to address the root causes of America’s recent economic crisis, Congress approved a massive overhaul of the nation’s financial regulatory system on July 15, 2010. As an important component of the lengthy legislative bill (popularly known as the Dodd-Frank Act), Congress strengthened existing whistleblower protections, including the employee protection provisions of [...]