Maybe whistleblowing isn’t that painful on corporate ears after all. Four years after Congress enacted Sarbanes-Oxley and established Section 806—which protects employees from retaliation if they raise complaints about a company’s compliance with securities law—legal experts say the whistleblower provision can be a nuisance, especially when workers abuse its protections.
Overall, however, as court cases move forward and decisions on the scope of whistleblower protections emerge, Section 806 isn’t evolving into the compliance nightmare that other portions of SOX have become.
