During his four-year stint as the chief of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower office, Sean McKessy stressed that companies could not use severance agreements to prevent departing employees from reporting misconduct to regulators.
McKessy credited his successor, Jane Norberg, for driving that point home in a string of enforcement actions against severance agreements that could have impeded whistleblowers.
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