A whistle blower is someone who alerts the government to fraud. The term often gets used in a broad sense to describe someone exposing the unethical or illegal behavior of a corporation. Actual whistle blowing, however, is exposing fraud against the government.

If your employer is cheating customers, encouraging sexual harassment in the workplace, or violating health and safety codes, it’s technically not a whistle-blower situation. You certainly can turn them in for these bad actions, but it doesn’t fit within the definition because these actions are not against the government.

So what does constitute whistleblowing? Reporting your employer for…
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