369 F. Supp. 2d 1335 - White v. Purdue Pharma, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “In contrast to Title VII, which specifically defines the type of conduct that can subject an employer to a lawsuit, the FWA encompasses a wide array of illegal conduct. To expand the statutory language of the FWA further to provide protection for every employee’s reasonable belief would be to run afoul of the plain language of the statute and to expand beyond recognition this limited rule which simply allows employees to shed light on their employer’s conduct, which is in violation of a law, rule or regulation, without fear of retaliation. Allowing for the expanded reading of the statute Plaintiff proposes would place an onerous burden on the employer to anticipate all of its conduct that an employee may reasonably believe is proscribed by a law, rule or regulation. Even if the employer knows the conduct is perfectly legitimate, it would be left with the Hobson’s choice of terminating the employee and defending suit against the employee’s reasonable belief or allowing] the employee to refuse to meet the requirements of the job with no consequence. In apparent recognition of this dilemma the legislature declined to include in the relevant section of the Act this protection for employees.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 157 So. 3d 458 - Kearns v. Farmer Acquisition Company