Who has protection under the Whistleblower Program?
The law requires that the identity of the whistleblower be kept confidential and affords the whistleblower protection from retaliation for filing a report. It also provides these same protections to any state employee who provides information during a whistleblower investigation. At the same time, the law protects any employee who others believe filed a whistleblower report or provided information, but actually didn’t. Q: Can the State Auditor investigate assertions involving personnel actions? No. In enacting the state’s Whistleblower Act, the Legislature specifically excluded personnel actions from the types of actions covered. These types of actions include, but are not limited to, employee grievances, complaints, appointments, promotions, transfers, assignments, reassignments, reinstatements, restorations, reemployments, performance evaluations, reductions in pay, dismissals, suspensions, demotions, violations of state civil service laws, labor agreement violations, reprimands, any
