The former director of compliance for iRobot—maker of the robot vacuum cleaner Roomba—claims in a federal lawsuit he was fired for pointing out the company’s violations of state, federal, and international law.

Janusz Pankowski, who was iRobot’s director of compliance from April 2016 to May 2018, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, seeking $750,000 for lost wages and emotional distress.

Aaron Nicodemus is the Editor-in-Chief of Compliance Week. He previously worked as a reporter for Bloomberg Law and as business editor at the Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Mass. Email: aaron.nicodemus@complianceweek.com LinkedIn:...