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"Whistleblowing" to media not protected by Sarbanes-Oxley
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- May 9 2011
In a decision that likely surprised no one but the plaintiffs, on May 3, 2011, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that Boeing was within its right to fire two employees who complained to the media about practices they viewed as potential violations of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act ("SOX"
Adverse action: more expansively construed under SOX than under Title VII
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- September 22 2011
In a case of first impression, the Department of Labor’s Administrative Review Board (ARB) finds that the meaning of the term “adverse action” under the whistleblower protection provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) is substantially broader than the meaning of the same term under Title VII, and found that the employer’s disclosure of the whistleblower’s identity in violation of the employer’s own confidentiality policy was an adverse action
