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In Lawson v. FMR LLC, the US Supreme Court<\/em> held that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act does extend its whistleblower protections to include employees of privately held contractors that do work for public companies. The Supreme Court case was filed by two ex-employees of privately held companies engaged in mutual funds investments. <\/p>\n

The plaintiffs contend that their employers acted against them for bringing up issues they had related to mutual funds. Meantime, their former employers tried to have the lawsuits dismissed, contending that because the plaintiffs had been employees of privately held companies, they could not avail of the whistleblower protections under the SOX Act. Such protections prohibit retaliation against an employee by any officer, contractor, employee, agent, or subcontractor of a public company. <\/p>\n

Although previous to Lawson, other federal district courts had made the same assertion, in this latest case, the district court said that the whistleblower provision does in fact protect the employees of any related entity of a public company. This protection would therefore apply to the Lawson plaintiffs. <\/p>\n

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