{"id":2724,"date":"2023-09-19T10:21:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seci.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2023-09-19T10:21:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:21:36","slug":"another-violation-of-whistleblower-protection-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/another-violation-of-whistleblower-protection-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Violation of Whistleblower Protection Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The SEC has enforced against several companies for including clauses in separation or employment agreements that violate whistleblower protection laws.\u00a0 You can read more in these releases about settled actions with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/files\/litigation\/admin\/2015\/34-74619.pdf\">KBR, Inc<\/a>. and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/files\/litigation\/admin\/2022\/34-95138.pdf\">Brink\u2019s Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a settled enforcement announced on September 8, 2023, Monolith Resources, LLC entered into a cease-and-desist order and paid a civil money penalty of $225,000 because the company included provisions in separation agreements that required certain departing employees to waive rights to whistleblower awards.\u00a0 What makes this case different, is that Monolith Resources, LLC is a privately held company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can read more in the related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/press-release\/2023-172\">Press Release<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/files\/litigation\/admin\/2023\/34-98322.pdf\">SEC Order<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As always, your thoughts and comments are welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SEC has enforced against several companies for including clauses in separation or employment agreements that violate whistleblower protection laws.\u00a0 You can read more in these releases about settled actions with KBR, Inc. and Brink\u2019s Company. In a settled enforcement announced on September 8, 2023, Monolith Resources, LLC entered into a cease-and-desist order and paid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/another-violation-of-whistleblower-protection-rules\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Violation of Whistleblower Protection Rules<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[143,256],"tags":[],"coauthors":[154],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-topic","category-sec-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}