According to data released by OSHA, the number of
whistleblower complaints filed under SOX and the Consumer Financial
Protection Act ("CFPA") declined in 2018. OSHA received
45 complaints under the CFPA in 2018 (down 50% from the 90
complaints received in 2017) and 155 complaints under SOX (down
from the 186 received in 2017).
Whistleblower complaint determinations were also down in 2018,
from 3,432 cases resolved in 2017 (whether on the merits, or
because the cases were dismissed, settled, or withdrawn) to 2,964
in 2018.
Although the total number of whistleblower complaints under all
of the whistleblower protection statues OSHA enforces were also
down year over year (from 3,303 in 2017 to 3,007 in 2018), the
overall trend is that the number of whistleblower complaints has
generally increased over the past ten years (from 2,219 in 2008 to
3,007 in 2018).
