Whistleblower Can Proceed With Retaliation Claims Under the California False Claims Act and Labor Code
Last October, the Los Angeles Times article titled “Rampant recycling fraud is draining California cash,” available here, exposed one of the latest scams sweeping across California–and discussed one man’s effort to nip this fraud in the bud, at least to the extent that it involved his former employer. Specifically, in a lawsuit filed in August 2009, Brian McVeigh alleged that after he complained to his employer