Managing Human Resources, Eight Edition

 You Manage It! 3: Ethics/Social Responsibility Employees Should Be Aware of the Risks Before They Attempt to Blow the Whistle

The U.S. Department of Labor, which is charged with enforcing the federal law protecting whistle-blowers at publicly traded companies, has been dismissing complaints on the technicality that workers at corporate subsidiaries are not covered by the law. The government has ruled in favor of whistle-blowers only 17 times out of 1,273 complaints filed between 2002 and 2008, according to Department of Labor records. Another 841 cases were dismissed. Many of the dismissals were made on the grounds that employees worked for ...