DISH Network Ordered to Pay $257,000 On Former Employee’s Blacklisting Claim

A former employee of DISH Network has been awarded $257,000 on his claims that the company tried to blacklist him in the international cable television programming business after he reported a vendor for submitting fraudulent invoices, the Labor Department announced March 18.

An order by the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which enforces anti-retaliation protections for employee whistle-blowers under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other federal laws, requires the network to pay the former employee $157,024 in back wages and $100,000 in compensatory damages for emotional distress and loss of reputation, as well as take other corrective actions.

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