Friday, May 09, 2008

Women whistleblowers suffer more


Turning into a whistleblower is a fraught decision. Once it happens, you can expect some form of retaliation. Many would say doing the right thing is not necessarily the right thing to do in terms of your career. Some good advice from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: exhaust all possibilities of any reasonable way to work within the system; get a legal opinion from an attorney specifically trained in this new subspecialty of employment law and talk to your family and close friends about the issue (without revealing details).

To add to that, we have a new study which finds that women are subject to greater levels of retaliation than men.

See full Article.