Whistleblower Protection Act

Whistleblower Protection Act

Long title	An Act to amend title 5, United States Code, to strengthen the protections available to Federal employees against prohibited personnel practices, and for other purposes.
Nicknames	Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989
Enacted by	the 101st United States Congress
Effective	April 10, 1989
Citations
Public law	101-12
Statutes at Large	103 Stat. 16
Codification
Titles amended	5 U.S.C.: Government Organization and Employees
U.S.C. sections amended	5 U.S.C. ch. 12 § 1201 et seq.
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 20 by Carl Levin (D–MI) on January 25, 1989 Passed the Senate on March 16, 1989 (97-0, Roll call vote 24, via Senate.gov) Passed the House on March 21, 1989 (Agreed voice vote) Signed into law by President George H. W. Bush on April 10, 1989

The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, 5 U.S.C. 2302(b)(8)-(9), Pub.L. 101-12 as amended, is a United States federal law that protects federal whistleblowers who work for the government and report the possible existence of an activity constituting a violation of law, rules, or regulations, or mismanagement, gross waste of funds, abuse of authority or a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety. A federal agency violates the Whistleblower Protection Act if agency authorities take (or threaten to take) retaliatory personnel action against any employee or applicant because of disclosure of information by that employee or applicant.^[1]