The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued a press release Thursday in which  Raj Date, acting head of the Bureau, outlined new strategies for ensuring that mortgage servicers comply with consumer-protection laws.  In the release, Date described the mortgage market as having been “bogged down by widespread reports of pervasive and profound consumer protection problems,” with [...]

The Republican Party of Florida has reached a confidential settlement deal with Susan Wright, a former Office Manager of the Republican Party of Florida, who alleged that she had been fired for questioning the use of Party credit cards by top officials such as Jim Greer, former Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida (“RPOF”), [...]

If misconduct reported by a corporate whistleblower represents a violation of the law, the employee may be protected against retaliation under various whistleblower statutes or a state tort claim of wrongful discharge in violation of public policy.  Often, however, an employee who reports misconduct is not protected from retaliation under these statutory or tort claims [...]

The Department of Labor Administrative Review Board has found in favor of Timothy Bailey, a truck driver for Koch Foods, LLC who alleged that he had been terminated in violation of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act (“STAA”). Bailey was a truck driver at a chicken processing plant in Gadsden, Alabama where he was responsible for regularly [...]

On September 28, 2011 the Department of Labor Administrative Review Board reversed and remanded the decision of an Administrative Law Judge in Vannoy v. Celanese Corp ARB CASE NO. 09-118, concluding that the ALJ interpreted too strictly the whistleblower-protection provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The case involves Matthew Vannoy, a contract employee at Celanese Corporation, an [...]