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Jacob Boehme

(789 posts)
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 08:50 PM Jan 2017

Office That Protects Whistleblowers Fires Warning Shot Across Trump's Bow

Source: TPM http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/special-counsel-whistleblower-anti-gag-order

The Office of Special Counsel, an agency that protects whistleblowers in the federal government, on Wednesday issued a reminder that any non-disclosure agreements or policies on employee communications must include language notifying federal employees of their whistleblower rights.

"Under the anti-gag provision, agencies cannot impose nondisclosure agreements and policies that fail to include required language that informs employees that their statutory right to blow the whistle supersedes the terms and conditions of the nondisclosure agreement or policy,"

The OSC also noted that whistleblower laws protect employees who blow the whistle "on any effort to ‘distort, misrepresent, suppress’ or otherwise censor any government ‘research, analysis, or technical information’ that the employee reasonably believes could, among other things, pose a substantial and significant threat to the public health or safety or constitute a violation of law, rule, or regulation."

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Office That Protects Whistleblowers Fires Warning Shot Across Trump's Bow (Original Post) Jacob Boehme Jan 2017 OP
Orange Julius Caesar doesn't know how to swim in this pool. K&R. n/t rzemanfl Jan 2017 #1
K&R bdamomma Jan 2017 #2
Wow! I'm glad some good guys (and gals) were once making decisions!!! LAS14 Jan 2017 #3
K&R! gademocrat7 Jan 2017 #4
Oh god....is this office subject to his change in leadership ? we are so fucked Laura PourMeADrink Jan 2017 #5
Just like Homeowners Association bylaws that are always superseded by state laws. ffr Jan 2017 #6
Does he even understand what this says? SCVDem Jan 2017 #7
Crudeness meets sanity bucolic_frolic Jan 2017 #8
KNR Thank you! Lucinda Jan 2017 #9
Go Whistleblowers Office, GO! burrowowl Jan 2017 #10

ffr

(22,644 posts)
6. Just like Homeowners Association bylaws that are always superseded by state laws.
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 10:27 PM
Jan 2017

How does it feel to be trumped there ol' orange muppet?

bucolic_frolic

(42,651 posts)
8. Crudeness meets sanity
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 11:20 PM
Jan 2017

Trump is a simpleton, he has no awareness of anything other
than his own will

He is exercising his duties in a crude manner, like an ignoramus, like
a bull in a china shop, like abdominal surgery with an axe

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