As the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Government continues to put systems in place for transparency and good governance, in keeping with its campaign promises, the Whistleblower Act, 2021, was brought to parliament and received its First Reading today, March 4, 2021.
The Handbook is a step-by-step guide to the essential tools for successfully blowing the whistle, qualifying for financial rewards, and protecting yourself. For additional information on whistleblower rights, read The New Whistleblower’s Handbook, the first-ever guide to whistleblowing, by the nation’s leading whistleblower attorney. A whistleblower case brought by Phillips & Cohen in the US Southern District of New York exposed the practice of “yield-burning” by Wall Street banks and led to more than two dozen banks, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, paying the federal government over $220 million to settle civil charges. On January 19, 2016, Senator Carroll and Representative Ryden introduced SB 16-082, a bill that protects homeowners from retaliation or discrimination due to the homeowner filing a complaint or otherwise seeking to enforce the governing documents or the Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act (“CCIOA”).
0 kommentar(er)
