Blog Category - Whistleblowing

May

How to Know If Your Workplace Conditions Are Unsafe

No matter what kind of job you have, your workplace conditions should be safe and healthy. Even if your work environment involves some dangerous conditions, there are safety standards to help mitigate that danger. All companies should strive to keep their employees safe. So, h...

May

What Is the Whistleblower Protection Act?

In 2014, three new laws were enacted and added to the California Whistleblower Protection Act. The act already prevented employers from retaliating against employees that reported violations of state and federal laws to government officials or the police. Here is a look at the...

May

What Are My Whistleblower Protections in California?

A whistleblower is an employee who reports some kind of violation of state or federal law by his or her employer. This violation could be against the reporting employee (which is usually the case for sexual harassment claims) or it could be a general violation. California’s st...

May

Can My Employer Retaliate After I Refuse to Do Something Illegal?

Uber, the nationwide ridesharing company, has recently had a slew of allegations come against them, from sexual harassment to using technology to operate in banned areas, and now, telling one of their engineers to cover up the fact he stole illegal documents for them. Waymo, t...

May

Local Employment Law Cases: Local Drug Rehab Hit with Retaliation Claim

A former human resources director at Passages Malibu, a Malibu-based addiction treatment center, has been awarded more than $1. 8 million by a jury. The former employee filed a retaliation claim against the luxury treatment center after being fired for whistleblowing. She als...

May

Did Wells Fargo Managers Retaliate by Firing Whistleblowers?

Last month, news broke that Wells Fargo employees had opened two million accounts for customers without their permission. Details from the scandal suggest employees felt pressured to meet impossible sales quotas, and thus opened the fake accounts to avoid being reprimanded. A f...

May

What If an Employer Asks You to Commit a Crime?

Working people in businesses of all kinds are faced with similar moral questions. Do I sacrifice quality to cut costs? If I did that, would that be ethical? Is this in the best interests of the community? In some cases, an employer can ask you to do something that sets of...