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Permanent Whistleblower Protections for Federal Contractors

Permanent Whistleblower Protections A bill sponsored by Senator Claire McCaskill to make permanent a pilot program applying whistleblower protections to contractors, subcontractors, grant recipients, and subgrantees has been passed by the House and Senate. It applies the program’s protection from retaliation to nearly all civilian employees except for the intelligence community. The pilot program was...
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DOJ Investigating Unaoil Bribery under FCPA

Two companies have now disclosed receiving inquiries from the U.S. Department of Justice concerning Monaco-based engineering company Unaoil S.A.M. Media reports published by The Huffington Post earlier this year have implicated Unaoil in what HuffPo has called the “World’s Biggest Bribe Scandal”. The disclosures of receipt of an inquiry from the U.S. Department of Justice...
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Supreme Court Expands SOX Whistleblower Protections

The Supreme Court issued a win for whistleblowers yesterday. In Lawson v. FMR LLC, 571 U.S. ____, slip op. (March 4, 2014), the Court held that the employees of privately held contractors and subcontractors reporting on a public company are protected by the whistleblower provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. At issue was 18 U.S.C. § 1514A,...
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Contractor Defrauds DOD for Fresh Produce

On November 19, 2013, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that FreshPoint, Inc., the nation’s largest distributor of fresh produce, agreed to settle claims that it defrauded the Department of Defense (“DOD”).  FreshPoint, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SYSCO, Corp. who was also listed as a defendant in the qui tam case....
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Independent Contractors

Independent Contractors As with many of the other schemes employed by companies to cut labor costs, many employers will improperly classify employees as “independent contractors”. By doing so, these companies aim to avoid the payment of minimum wages, overtime, employee benefits, FICA taxes, workers’ compensation, and unemployment benefits. Young Law Group is a nationwide leader...
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It Is About Time!

It Is About Time! For years, powerful lobbyist for corporate America have successfully impeded government intervention with regard to wide-spread violations of state and federal wage protection laws. Well, times have changed. Yesterday, Senator Sherrod Brown and Representative Lynn Woolsey introduced the Employee Misclassification Protection Act which is aimed at helping millions of workers who...
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Military Contractor Fraud Triumvirate

Military Contractor Fraud Triumvirate Three prime examples of military contractor fraud deserve attention today. Two put  service members at serious  risk of bodily harm or death, and all of them bilked tax payers. In the first case, a subcontractor of Sikorsky agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a FCA claim. Ceradyne, Inc., of Costa Mesa, CA,...
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Military Contractors: Big Bucks, Big Fraud

Military Contractors: Big Bucks, Big Fraud Most of us are aware of the fact that the U.S. government is using a large number of military contractors in its operations.  What many people don’t know, however, is that as of March, 2009, there were more Department of Defense contractors than uniformed personnel in Afghanistan. According to...
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We Settle Wage & Hour Case For Zinc Production Workers

We Settle Wage & Hour Case For Zinc Production Workers Young Law Group, P.C., Attorneys-at-Law, is pleased to announce final approval of a $1.2 million dollar settlement with Horsehead Corporation to resolve a collective action lawsuit brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) on behalf of over 500 present and former unionized zinc production...
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