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Jun 19, 2014

ERISA Has a Whistleblower Provision? Yep.

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Most employee benefits practitioners are familiar with ERISA Section 510, 29 U.S.C. § 1140, which is frequently used by participants to assert claims that they were terminated in order to prevent them from obtaining certain benefits under an employee benefit plan.  A lesser known part of Section 510, however, is its second clause, which protects ERISA whistleblowers from retaliation after engaging in certain protected whistleblowing activity.

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