Standing Up for What’s Right

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Standing Up for
Whats Right
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Your job is your identity. Your job makes you
proud and fills yours with satisfaction. You take
great joy in doing your job right and finding
ways to improve efficiency is your specialty. You
have a team and your boss has been admiring your
work praising you for your accomplishments and
asking you to dinners to meet other superiors in
your company. This is the projected path you have
always wanted and have fought so hard for. Then
your boss starts to ask you to do some not so
normal behaviors. He asks you to cut some
corners. Change some numbers. Manipulate some
comments and hide some materials. These are
behaviors not natural or custom to your job. You
pride yourself on being honest and true. You love
your job, but you also dont like what your boss
is asking you to do because, for lack of better
words, its shady.
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In keeping with this scenario, lets say that
after a few months of engaging with this behavior
you are feeling awful internally. The next week
you are going to be reviewed by an ethics
committee or compliance director to ensure that
all your job behaviors are legal. They stop at
your office, what are you to do? Lie? Or tell the
truth?
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Whistleblowers A Definition
A whistleblower is an odd term. It is somehow
both said with derogatorily but with respect.
Those who are whistleblowers attempt to right
wrongs or bring attention to questionable
behaviors. Whistleblowers are people who speak on
the illicit activity in an organization. And
who gets upset at the whistleblower? Those who
are enacting the illicit activity. At the
Kaufman Law Firm in Los Angeles, they have
attorneys who specialize in whistleblower
litigation. they are aware that not every
business practices ethical or legal business
practices. they also know that when someone
attempts to break the silence about these
practices, it is common for the whistleblower to
experience some kind of retaliation whether it be
in the form of threats, demotion, or
termination.
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Under California law, it is illegal for employers
to wrongfully terminate, demotion, or act in
retaliation to an employee who has called out any
fraudulent, unlawful, or unethical behavior. Here
are the most common types of situations in which
whistleblowers find themselves reporting

• Racial or ethnic discrimination in the workplace

• Wrongful termination

• Disability and sexual orientation discrimination

• Sexual harassment

• Wages and hour issues

• Unpaid overtime

• Unpaid commissions

• Retaliation

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These topics do not just pertain to one person.
These topics can affect a whole host of people as
well as contribute to a super negative work
environment. Being a whistleblower should not be
a derogatory term. Instead, you should be proud
of standing up for is right for yourself and to
the benefit of others. A Los Angeles
whistleblower attorney at the Kaufman Law Firm is
here for you through this trying time. They
understand that you were want to do your job to
the best of your ability. Give a call at
310-981-3404 for more information about how they
can help you.
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Contact The Kaufman Law Firm
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Angeles, CA 90025 Phone [phone] https//w
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