Mate3 Networking Outcome #21526

When I worked at my last job, I exposed illegal dumping and fraud—actions that likely violated both environmental and financial laws. In Michigan, the Whistleblowers’ Protection Act is supposed to help shield employees from retaliation when they report violations of law. But retaliation isn’t always formal—it can be social, like ostracism, exclusion, or coordinated hostility by co-workers and peers. Local, state and federal protections that should have been provided to protect and support me were not. I sent my 3 firsthand answers to mate3@mate3.com and the result has been the starting of a coalition that watches for and tracks subtler forms of retaliation that are harder to prove but just as damaging. The new coalition is helping to close a dangerous loophole by calling for legal restrictions on peers and co-workers that organize retaliation against whistleblowers. The coalition is proposing the expansion of laws and policies to cover peer-led retaliation, especially when it’s coordinated.

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