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Whistleblower Law: A Guide to Legal Protections for Corporate Employees

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This is an extremely well written, clear, and cautious overview of new federal protections for whistleblowers, because that's really what has happened since 2002. Do take note that it is really directed for employees in the private sector; if you are in a government job things may be somewhat different. Or very, very different depending on your location. It would be nice to learn more about private sector jobs that are subcontracted out by government agencies and the whistleblowing is "on" the contractors, but this may be too complex or may need to go through the courts.

Certainly I wish that I had had something like this 14 years ago, when I was caught up in a whistleblowing problem that cost me my job and my life (not that I died, obviously, but that my life could never be the same, not that I really wanted it to be). I took whatever legal guides I could find, but in addition to their being contradictory and sketchy, their bindings were insufficient for the size of their pages and all collapsed within a matter of weeks.

Of course, even more, I wish that the SOX laws were in effect at that time; then the burden of proof really fell upon us, and if we were going to fight their legal teams on any sort of even ground, it was bound to get very nasty. [3]