Wayne N. Outten, Scott Moss and Piper Hoffman, April 1, 2003
Extensive statutory and case law prohibits various forms of employer retaliation against employees who engage in legally proper, necessary, or desirable activities. The law on retaliation is not unified, however; as discussed in Part I, it is spread among many federal and state statutes typically organized by subject matter – e.g., retaliation against opposition to discrimination, retaliation against government employee whistleblowing, etc. Many basic principles of retaliation law are well-established, as the survey of federal law in Part I elaborates. Numerous issues in retaliation law remain unresolved, however, with different courts openly disagreeing on the limits of employee protections, as Part II discusses.
