US professor wins $400,000 payout after refusing to call trans student a woman. Shawnee State University in Ohio had reprimanded Nicholas Meriwether, who then sued on first amendment grounds.

A public university in Ohio has agreed to pay $400,000 to one of its professors after it rebuked him for refusing to use a student’s pronouns. In 2018, Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University in southern Ohio, …

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SEC Gives Whistle-Blower $110 Million in Payout

Article (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission awarded $110 million to a tipster whose information resulted in enforcement actions, bringing total payments under the agency’s whistle-blower program to more than $1 billion. The tipster’s award, the second-largest ever, …

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Conspiracy theory fan wins $20,000 workplace discrimination payout

by The_In-Betweener https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/conspiracy-theory-fan-wins-20000-workplace-discrimination-payout/news-story/2007c3ce252920202b2f127a61fd1b0a Hear that guys, speak up a little louder at work and maybe someone will rat you out to your manager, in which case you could get a nice chunk of change. It’s nice to know people are …

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