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Labor Dept. Shifts Whistle-Blower View<br><br>


The Labor Department has changed its interpretation of a new corporate whistle-blower law, a move that will afford workers who report wrongdoing to Congress greater protection against retaliation, two senators said yesterday.<br>
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<i> The Washington Post</i><br><br>

By Christopher Lee<br>
Washington Post Staff Writer<br>
Tuesday, January 28, 2003; Page A19 
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In a letter Friday to Sens. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), Acting Solicitor Howard M. Radzely reversed the department's contention that only whistle-blower contacts with a "duly authorized" investigative committee of Congress were protected, not those with just any lawmaker. That initial department reading of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a corporate accountability law enacted last summer, conflicted with what the two senators said they intended when they wrote the whistle-blower protections into the bill.
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Read the article at <a href=" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51975-2003Jan27.html"target="new">www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51975-2003Jan27.html</a>
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