Whistleblowers
Posted in Current Class Actions, Employee Rights, Employment Law, Equal Pay, Wage and Hour, Whistleblowers on July 11, 2019
Visiting Angels Lawsuit Rukin Hyland & Riggin is currently investigating potential employment violations by Home Care company Visiting Angels. Over the last few years, multiple home care, hospice care, and senior care corporations have come under the spotlight for abusing home how employees are classified and paid. California labor and employment laws are put in place to protect
... read more.Posted in Employee Rights, Whistleblowers on September 12, 2016
Severance agreements have once again drawn the ire of the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission. This time, the SEC fined an Atlanta –based company, BlueLinx Holdings, Inc., $265,000 for maintaining unlawful severance agreement provisions. It seems that many companies are having a hard time complying with the SEC rule that makes it unlawful for an
... read more.Posted in Employment Law, Whistleblowers on May 17, 2014
Journalists have called 2014 the year of the whistleblower. The recent award of a Pulitzer to the Guardian and the Washington Post for stories based on Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks have again sparked debates about what should be covered as whistleblowing activity and how far those protections should extend. However, one form of whistleblowing continues
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