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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOffice 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."
"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
Oh god....is this office subject to his change in leadership ? we are so fucked
Laura PourMeADrink
Jan 2017
#5
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)1. Orange Julius Caesar doesn't know how to swim in this pool. K&R. n/t
bdamomma
(63,650 posts)2. K&R
LAS14
(13,749 posts)3. Wow! I'm glad some good guys (and gals) were once making decisions!!!
gademocrat7
(10,623 posts)4. K&R!
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)5. Oh god....is this office subject to his change in leadership ? we are so fucked
ffr
(22,644 posts)6. Just like Homeowners Association bylaws that are always superseded by state laws.
How does it feel to be trumped there ol' orange muppet?
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)7. Does he even understand what this says?
Someone better tell dump what this means. PERIOD!!
bucolic_frolic
(42,651 posts)8. Crudeness meets sanity
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
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)9. KNR Thank you!
burrowowl
(17,603 posts)10. Go Whistleblowers Office, GO!