In conjunction with the National Employment Lawyers Association, GAP recently sponsored a first-class national webinar on the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CSPIA) whistleblower provision. In a one-hour session, accompanied by online print materials, GAP lawyers walked through the fine points of the Act’s legislative history, its procedural and substantive provisions, and offered practice tips based upon decades of collective experience in representing whistleblowers.
Prompted by so-called “killer toys,” the CSPIA includes a little reported section empowering some 20 million private sector employees to blow the whistle on unsafe products. GAP was instrumental in getting this language put in the law.
GAP is helping to make sure this law is thoroughly briefed by plaintiffs’ lawyers so that judges can’t ignore Congress’ clear intention to shield whistleblowers who speak out about unsafe products.
