Sometimes, a situation arises where an employee cannot return to work after FMLA leave expires. Although different lengths of leave have been considered appropriate under the ADA, usually indefinite leave has never been looked at as a reasonable accommodation. Recently, however, the New York Court of Appeals issued a ruling…
Last week, the Fifth Circuit issued the first decision interpreting Dodd-Frank’s anti-retaliation provision. Importantly, the court stated that to be protected under the Act’s provisions, an individual must be a whistleblower, which is defined in the Act as requiring that the individual makes a report to the SEC. This holding…
A UVA researcher was awarded a huge $800,000 victory by a federal jury after having been found to have been fired for reporting his supervisor altered a National Institute of Health grant awarded to the researcher. Filing under the False Claims Act and Whistleblower Protection Act, Weihua Huang claimed he…