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The [https://zuckermanlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ABA-2014-SOX-Update11.pdf whistleblower protection provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act] prohibits a broad range of retaliatory adverse employment actions, including discharging, demoting, suspending, threatening, harassing, or in any other manner discriminating against a whistleblower. Recently a federal court of appeals held that merely outing or disclosing the identity of a whistleblower is actionable retaliation under SOX. | The [https://zuckermanlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ABA-2014-SOX-Update11.pdf whistleblower protection provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act] prohibits a broad range of retaliatory adverse employment actions, including discharging, demoting, suspending, threatening, harassing, or in any other manner discriminating against a whistleblower. Recently a federal court of appeals held that merely outing or disclosing the identity of a whistleblower is actionable retaliation under SOX. | ||
==='''Proving Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Retaliation === | ==='''Proving Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Retaliation '''=== | ||
To prevail under SOX’s whistleblower provision, an employee must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that | To prevail under SOX’s whistleblower provision, an employee must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that | ||