A Georgia appellate court has made it easier for state employees to blow the whistle. In a case of first impression, the court held last week that the state's "whistle-blower" statute should be broadly interpreted to protect public employees' jobs. Employees needn't file a grievance, observation or allegation in writing to a governing board or agency head to be protected by the whistle-blower law, wrote Chief Judge Edward H. Johnson for the panel. They only have to complain to an immediate higher-up.
May 17, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The state Court of Appeals has made it easier for state employees to blowthe whistle on co-workers’ or superiors’ wrongdoing.
In a case of first impression, the court held last week that the state’s”whistle-blower” statute should be broadly interpreted to protect publicemployees’ jobs.
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