Tag Archives: Filing a whistleblower claim
EEOC Wins Nearly $500 Million for Victims of Discrimination in 2017
In a news release posted on its website, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reports it won nearly $500 million for victims of workplace discrimination in 2017. It also managed to reduce its backlog of unresolved discrimination charges to the lowest levels in about a decade. The EEOC secured about $484 million in total. […]
Whistleblower Earns Award for Helping Secure $2 Million Settlement in Contract Rigging Case
A whistleblower was recently paid $470,000 of a $2 million settlement after successfully challenging what she believed — with agreement from government prosecutors — to be a shell company at Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The subcontractor who was put in charge of setting up this shell company, Federal Engineers and Constructors, worked under a joint venture […]
