Time and time again, conscientious yet unsuspecting private sector employees fall into the same trap: notify upper management of illegal or unethical activity being committed at the workplace, and be terminated as a result. Maybe New York’s whistleblower statute is to blame for creating a false sense of security. One might think that “blowing the whistle” on unlawful behavior is a civic duty and unassailable. The devil is always in the details, however, as the whistleblower statute protects employees only when the violation of law creates a “danger to the public health or safety or which constitutes health care fraud.”1
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