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Although the House/Senate conference committee has yet to issue its official conference report, many news outlets are now reporting that the final language has been approved, and that whistleblower protections for private sector manufacturing employees  will be included in the final version of the Consumer Product Safety Commission Reform Act (HR.4040)!


If these reports are correct (and we have no reason to doubt them), and if the President signs the bill -he has not issued a veto-threat, but the administration is currently reviewing the language of the conference report- manufacturing employees will have some of the strongest whistleblower protections in the country. Under the new law, whistleblowers will have access to jury trials in federal courts with strong remedies, including reinstatement, backpay, compensatory damages, and attorneys fees.


  Read the whistleblower provision of HR.4040 here, at the NWC's consumer product safety webpage.


UPDATE: Senator Pryor's website has all of the provisions that have been agreed to, INCLUDING whistleblower protection!!!

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Yesterday the House Judiciary Committee approved legislation to amend the False Claims Act, sending the measure along to be voted on by the full House of Representatives. Companion legislation (S.2041) was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee in April.


The False Claims Act Corrections Act will help undo some of the damage that has been done to the FCA in recent years by poor judiciary decisions, such as Allison Engine v. US.


I will post the full text of the approved language as soon as it becomes available.

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Today, the National Whistleblower Center issued an urgent action alert, requesting that all whistleblower supporters email and/or call their Senators and Representatives, urging them to support whistleblower protections in the Consumer Product Safety Commission reform legislation.

The CPSC reform is now in conference committee, and the conferees are scheduled to vote on the bill tomorrow. The Senate version of the bill contains whistleblower protection for manufacturer employees, as well as government inspectors, while the House version contains no whistleblower protections whatsoever.

The National Association of Manufacturers, and other big business groups have made killing whistleblower protections their #1 priority for this bill. We need all the support we can get to make sure that corporate greed does not interfere with product safety reforms! Whistleblowers are the eyes and ears, but we must give them the freedom to speak.

I certainly urge everyone to take a look at the action alert and pass it along to anybody who is interested in protecting honest employees. Here is the link.

http://capwiz.com/whistleblowers/issues/alert/?alertid=11636096&type=CO

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