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DOL ruling expands SOX whistleblower protections and widens court conflict

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 27 2012

On May 31, 2012, the Department of Labor’s Administrative Review Board (ARB) ruled in Spinner v. David Landau & Associates that the whistleblower protections of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act apply to employees of non-public companies that contract with public companies

High say-on-pay vote not protection from shareholder compensation suit

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 28 2011

Ralph Lauren Company has been sued in a derivative action on alleged excess executive pay, even though the 2010 say-on-pay vote approval rate was 96

Saving face and almost losing stock option value

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 5 2011

A recent case points out the need to tie up stock option treatment when an executive “voluntarily” resigns to avoid being fired

Department of Labor ruling significantly broadens whistleblower protections

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 15 2011

On May 25, 2011, the federal Department of Labor’s Administrative Review Board (ARB) issued a decision greatly increasing the scope of what constitutes protected activity under the whistleblower protection provisions in Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX