Every day American workers report fraud, violations of environmental rules, health and safety hazards, and political corruption. The National Business Ethics Survey reports that 56% of workers admit to witnessing serious misconduct at work, and more than half of them actually take the first step in reporting the wrongdoing in some way. Regardless of the method employed, whistleblowing is occurring in every major company in the world, and in every government agency within the United States. Whistleblowers are the single most effective source of information about wrongdoing in corporations and government, and they create positive change in ways that elected officials can only dream. Plus, state and federal laws dictate monetary rewards for whistleblowers. But there exists a maze of confusing state and federal laws that govern whistleblowing, the protection of whistleblowers, and the monetary rewards of whistleblowing. Ignorance of these laws and the proper steps to expose wrongdoing too often lead to silence, or lost court cases, public embarrassment, and failure to create real and meaningful change. Now, from the nation's leading whistleblower attorney, comes the only consumer guide to whistleblowing.
