Summary: By Adam Turteltaub<br><br> adam.turteltaub@corporatecompliance.org<br> Why do employees go outside the company to blow the whistle? Are they in it for the money? Out for revenge? Or, did someone just not listen to them?<br> <a href="https://constantinecannon.com/blog/attorneys/eric-r-havian/">Eric Havian</a>, partner in the San Francisco office of Constantine Cannon, offers his perspective based on years of qui tam cases. In this podcast he discusses:<br> <br> * The impact of the SEC program on the number of whistleblowers<br> * Why the SEC whistleblower program is leading more people to come forward<br> * The increased belief by whistleblowers that their identity will be protected and they will not be retaliated against<br> * Money is rarely the motivating factor for blowing the whistle<br> * Frustration is much more of a factor: the employee has seen and reported something wrong, but no one has acted, they believe<br> * Thinking of whistleblowers as people who can’t do the wrong thing or walk away when they see something wrong<br> * Whistleblowers typically exhaust internal mechanisms before going to outside counsel<br> * Staying inside the company is largely driven by which compliance programs are trusted and which aren’t<br> * Why people are resistant to being told that they are doing something wrong or illegal<br> * The criticality of protecting employees from retaliation.<br> <br>
