Employment Law Updates | New Proposed Legislation

August 3, 2009

U.S. Senate Committee Approves Whistleblower Protection Bill for Federal Employees

Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009
S. 372, 2/3/2009

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has unanimously approved the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009 (S. 372). The bill amends the existing Whistleblower Protection Act (“WPA”) and strengthens the rights and protections of federal employees who come forward to disclose government waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement.

The legislation is sponsored by Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) and Ranking Member Susan M. Collins (R-ME) and cosponsored by Chairman Joe I. Lieberman (ID-CT), and Senator George V. Voinovich (R-OH), all members of the Committee. Additional cosponsors include Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Carl Levin (D-MI), Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT), Edward M.…

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Ontario Police Department

City of Ontario

Arch Wireless Operating Company, Inc.

B & D Contracting

Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee

Watkins Motor Lines, Inc.

Agere Systems, Inc. f.k.a. Lucent Technologies, Inc.

Tulsa Winch, Inc.

Ramsey Winch, Inc.

Norris

DP Manufacturing, Inc.

Auto Crane Company

Gold’n Plump Poultry, Inc.

Advanced Solutions, Inc.

The Work Connection

Cardone Industries, Inc.

Pitt-Ohio Express, Inc.

Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School

BVP, LLC d.b.a. Big Vanilla Pasadena

Lehigh Valley Physicians Business Services, Inc.

N.F.A.C., Inc. d.b.a. Big Vanilla Athletic Club

Lehigh Valley Health Services, Inc.

J.C. Penney Corp.

Huron Valley Ambulance, Inc.

American Insurance Co.

Murphy Ford Inc. d.b.a. Murphy Ford Lincoln Mercury Murphy Ford Inc.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

United Airlines, Inc.

City of Chicago

Equal Employment Opportunity

Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co.

New Process Steel L.P.

The Star Tribune Company

National Labor Relations Board

Scolari's Warehouse Markets, Inc. d.b.a. Scolari's Food and Drug

Rent-A-Center West, Inc.

EGL, Inc.

Eagle Freight Systems, Inc.

Industrial Division of the Communications Workers of America

Visteon Corp.

ConocoPhillips

Google, Inc.

U.S. Airways, Inc.

AT&T Corp.

Rosen Louik & Perry, P.C.

FBL Financial Group, Inc.

Granite Rock Company

International Game Tchnology

International Brotherhood of Teamsters