Criminalizing Workplace Retaliation: Should It Be a Crime? | Whistleblowers of America

Should workplace retaliation be treated as a criminal offense, especially when it results in serious psychological injury? In this Roundtable Series discussion, experts examine the devastating impact of whistleblower retaliation. We explore how retaliation creates a cascade of negative effects—including mental health crises, financial loss, and long-term unemployment—and whether current legal frameworks are enough to protect employees. The conversation breaks down a bold policy recommendation: reclassifying retaliation as a prosecutable harm analogous to coercive or violent crime, because it is an act of intentional, normative violence. Whether you are a whistleblower navigating the aftermath of retaliation, an advocate fighting for policy change, or an employee trying to understand your legal rights, this conversation is for you. Topics covered: • The psychological and financial toll of workplace retaliation • Why current legal frameworks often fall short • Reclassifying retaliation as a prosecutable, intentional harm • Policy recommendations to hold perpetrators criminally accountable ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe for weekly resources on whistleblower rights and workplace advocacy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 Take the Whistle-Word Survey: https://forms.gle/5HXuJZrhYhqk1mix8 💛 Donate: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-... 🌐 Training & Education: https://www.workplacepromiseinstitute... 🎙️ Listen to the Roundtable Podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1EYD7sJ... iHeartRadio: https://iheart.com/podcast/236341774 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/0c2... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ About Whistleblowers of America Whistleblowers of America is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit supporting individuals who speak up against fraud, abuse, and misconduct. Your anonymity is our priority. Do not share personal case details in the comments. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #WorkplaceRetaliation #WhistleblowerRights #CriminalJustice #PsychologicalInjury #RetaliationLaw #CorporateAccountability #WorkplaceBullying #WorkplaceCulture #WhistleblowerProtection #WhistleblowersOfAmerica