| Most employees are very glad that we have | | | | laid-off. Let me explain. Let's say a company just |
| whistleblower laws to protect them in the | | | | reported dismal quarterly profits, and most of the |
| workplace. Often, employees see things that are | | | | employees realize that soon they will get a 90 |
| bothering them. Things they believe to be less | | | | day notice that the company will cut its |
| than ethical. It's good to have employees on the | | | | workforce. |
| inside of the company making sure that those | | | | At this point, an employee might blow the whistle |
| corporations are following the rules and not doing | | | | on something that the Corporation is doing which |
| anything that lacks integrity, or is a violation of | | | | is in the gray area of law. Now the company |
| the rules and regulations of their industry. | | | | cannot give the 90 day layoff warning to that |
| Still, during this last recession we saw this rule | | | | particular employee. Therefore they are |
| abused. Many employees that wanted to get | | | | protected, even though their coworkers will most |
| back at the company were filing whistleblower | | | | likely be laid off. If the company goes ahead and |
| reports, for things which were not really against | | | | lets them go, and lays them off with the other |
| the law, yet, these employees were able to do | | | | workers, often that employee can file a wrongful |
| that without repercussions. The company was not | | | | termination lawsuit. |
| allowed to fire them for terrorizing them from | | | | Most of the time, these wrongful termination |
| the inside. In fact, once a whistleblower files a | | | | lawsuits are settled out of court between the |
| report with a government agency, often they are | | | | litigating attorney and corporation in-house counsel, |
| able to hire a lawyer for wrongful termination, | | | | costing the company a good bit of money. |
| even if they are fired for cause in the future. | | | | Therefore, the miss-use of whistleblower laws |
| Thus, employees who thought they might be | | | | and rules and employment law is being |
| terminated would preempt with a whistle-event. | | | | manipulated and thus, holding the corporations for |
| Worse, there have been several cases where | | | | ransom even when a bogus complaint has been |
| whistleblowers have filed bogus complaints against | | | | filed. That just isn't right in my opinion. But I'd like |
| their company to prevent them from being | | | | you to please consider this. |