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Introduction
The Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection recently presented a draft bill for the Whistleblower Protection Act (
Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz). The reason for the draft bill is the EU Whistleblowing Directive (2019/1937/EU), which aims to better protect whistleblowers (ie, internal employees who draw attention to their employers compliance violations). Without adequate protection, whistleblowers are often subject to reprisals, which may lead to compliance breaches not being reported.
EU member states must implement the EU Whistleblowing Directive in national law by 17 December 2021. In Germany, this is to be done through the Whistleblower Protection Act. The bill is only a draft, so it may still be amended during the legislative process. However, since the draft implements the EU Whistleblowing Directive, the cornerstones of the new law are already fixed.
South Sudanese immigrant sues Whole Foods for denying promotion
The Maine Human Rights Commission ruled in November that the company illegally discriminated against Mark Opio of Portland
Credit: Webbert & Garvan Published: 5:10 PM EDT May 11, 2021 Updated: 5:10 PM EDT May 11, 2021
PORTLAND, Maine A Portland man who emigrated from South Sudan when he was 16 is suing Whole Foods for race discrimination and retaliation.
Mark Opio filed suit in Cumberland County Superior Court Tuesday, his attorneys said in a release.
In November 2020, the Maine Human Rights Commission found reasonable grounds to believe Whole Foods and its parent company, Amazon, discriminated against Opio on the basis of race.
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5 hours ago Magistrate Judge Andrew Rodovich of the Northern District of Indiana on Wednesday denied a motion to dismiss a case against a physician and the Centers for Pain Control Inc. (CPC), finding that the relator’s claims hold up to the required pleading standard.
Physician Dion Snider filed a qui tam action in May 2018 alleging that the defendants were operating a fraudulent billing and kickback scheme, in violation of the FCA, the Indiana False Claims and Whistleblower Protection Act, and the federal anti-kickback statute. Snider claimed that CPC promised and gave out free massage therapy sessions to Medicare and Medicaid patients who purchased trigger point therapy and failed to bill the federal health programs for the massage therapy sessions.
Trump-Era DOJ Reportedly Tracked Washington Post Reporters’ Phone Calls for Three Months in 2017
Sputnik International
https://sputniknews.com/us/202105081082830726-trump-era-doj-tracked-washington-post-reporters-phone-calls-for-three-months-in-2017 -report/
Although many US presidents have hailed the role of the press and promised to protect “legitimate” whistleblowers, the pace of US government crackdowns on whistleblowers and press organs as well as the probing and assault of journalists have accelerated, especially in the final years of the Trump administration that ended in January.
According to the Washington Post, three of its journalists were recently notified by the US Department of Justice that call records for all of their phones had been obtained by the department for three months in 2017.