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New Laws Expand Whistleblower Protections

By Wayne N. Outten and Cara E. Greene
October 27, 2010

Federal statutes protecting whistleblowers are on the rise. Most recently, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“The Dodd-Frank Act”), meant to overhaul and strengthen federal oversight of the financial system, included workplace protections for whistleblowers in the financial services industry. But that is not the only new law to include whistleblower protections. In addition to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (“ARRA”) (see “The Recovery Act's Daunting Whistleblower Provisions,” Employment Law Strategist, Oct. 2009), several other federal whistleblower protection statutes have been enacted or modified in the last few years. These new statutes, including the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act (2008), the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act (2009), and The Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, when combined with the Dodd-Frank Act and ARRA, dramatically expand retaliation protections for millions of employees who blow the whistle on workplace wrongdoing.

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