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"Employment-at-Will and Sarbanes-Oxley" Please respond to the following:Scrutinize the ethics of employment-at-will to determine whether you believe this is a practice that should be protected in the U.S. Explain your rationale.Discuss whether the Sarbanes-Oxley act protects whistle-blowers enough (or perhaps too much). What changes would you make to improve the effectiveness of the law."Freedom of Speech and False Claims" Please respond to the following:Drawing on arguments found in the reading for this week, determine the appropriate balance between unfettered free speech and the duties of public employees. Provide specific examples to support your response.Taking both the False Claims Act and global norms into account, make at least three recommendations for encouraging employees to report ethically questionable corporate practices.Discussion Thread
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Reference:Halbert, T., and Ingulli, E. (2012).Law and Ethics in the Business Environment(7thEdition). Mason, OH: Carnage Learning

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    LEGO Chapter 2
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Abstract
This paper does critical thinking and answers questions around:- 
 Employment at Will 
 Sarbanes-Oxley Act 
 Freedom of Speech 
 False Claims
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Critical Thinking
 Scrutinize the ethics of employment-at-will to determine whether you believe this is a 
practice that should be protected in the U.S. Explain your rationale.
The employment-at-will as a practice should be protected by various laws, primarily 
because, more often than not, there have been cases (and there will be) when the 
employees have been wrongly asked to leave the organization, than for rightful/beneficial 
reasons. If there are no protection laws, it would not only give the employer the right to 
fire an employee, resulting in cutting his source of livelihood, it will also ensure that 
employers have a much higher power and can indulge in any practice – illegal and 
immoral. A lot of ill-practices within the organization could never come into light by the 
whistleblowers. Plus there would be lack of co-operation and collaboration, lack of 
confidence in the setup & lack of belief and optimism in the organization’s vision, 
beliefs, ethics and processes – all this will anyway result in poor productivity of the 
employees. For an organization’s success,

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