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On March 1, 2017, the District of Maryland dismissed a Dodd Frank whistleblower retaliation claim because the plaintiff failed to allege that he had complained directly to the SEC about a violation of securities laws, and dismissed the plaintiff's SOX whistleblower retaliation claim because the complaint did not allege that the employer was a publically traded company.

Plaintiff Sanford Wadler, the former general counsel of Defendant Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (the "Company"), filed suit against the Company and its individual board members after his employment was terminated in June 2013.

A New Jersey federal court allowed medical device maker Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. to proceed with counterclaims against two of its former employees.

On July 15, 2015, in a highly anticipated decision, the New Jersey Supreme Court reaffirmed the wide expanse of CEPA (New Jersey's Whistleblower Law), by holding that the statute protects so-called "watchdog" employees.

On July 1, 2023, several new employment-related laws passed by the General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Youngkin earlier this year became effective in Virginia.

On January 26, 2022, New York's amended whistleblower law went into effect. The law, Section 740 of the New York Labor Law, significantly expands whistleblower protections in the state.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed legislation that significantly broadens protections for whistleblowing employees under Section 740 of the New York Labor Law.

On February 26, 2019, the Ninth Circuit affirmed much of a jury's approximately $11M verdict finding that a former general counsel was discharged in retaliation for reporting alleged Foreign Corrupt

On October 20, 2022, the Ninth Circuit reversed in part a grant of summary judgment in favor of an employer, finding that the district court misapplied the substantive law of California...

On July 15, 2015, the Supreme Court of New Jersey ruled that an employee who monitors corporate compliance—a so-called "watchdog" employee—can engage in protected activity by blowing the whistle under the New Jersey Conscientious Employee Protection Act in the course of performing the tasks and functions of the job for which he or she was hired.

Section 11(c) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act contains a "whistleblower" provision that prohibits retaliation against employees who make workplace safety and health complaints.

OSHA's new nationwide year-long pilot program that took effect on February 17, 2023, will aim to streamline the whistleblower complaint intake process.

On October 7, 2022, OSHA announced that it had ordered ExxonMobil Corp. to immediately rehire two computational scientists who alleged that they were fired in retaliation for leaking to the media...

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is launching a new "Expedited Case Processing Pilot" process in its Region 9.

The Affordable Care Act faces an uncertain future under the Trump administration, which will affect whistleblower provisions enforced by OSHA.

On May 15, 2013, OSHA determined that Enercon Services Inc. (Company), an engineering firm that provides nuclear power facilities with engineering support services, violated the whistleblower provisions of the Energy Reorganization Act (ERA).

According to figures recently released by OSHA, there has been a general increase in the number of whistleblower cases filed in fiscal year 2015 (FY 2015), in comparison to the number of cases filed in FY 2014.

In May 2014, OSHA entered into an agreement with the National Labor Relations Board to refer expired whistleblower claims to the NLRB.