Reversing course, the government has concluded that federal doctors and medical researchers who receive higher-than-normal salaries deserve the same protection to blow the whistle on wrongdoing as other civil servants. The decision has implications for thousands of federal researchers and doctors brought in from the private sector -- and paid higher salaries than normal civil service -- to conduct important government research, medical work and safety reviews.
May 02, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Reversing course, the government has concluded that thousands of federal doctors and medical researchers who receive higher-than-normal salaries deserve the same protection to blow the whistle on wrongdoing as other civil servants.
The decision by the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board supersedes an earlier ruling that had denied National Institutes of Health safety expert Jonathan Fishbein protection from firing under the Whistleblower Protection Act.
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