Oracle Beats Canadian Worker’s Suit Under US Whistleblower Laws

Oracle America Inc. isn’t liable under two US whistleblower laws to a Canadian employee, whose job duties changed after he complained about a US project he was working on both to the company and the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Ninth Circuit said.

The focus of the employment relationship was in Canada and the anti-retaliation provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act don’t apply extraterritorially, the per curiam opinion said.

Tayo Daramola is a Canadian citizen who worked remotely as lead project manager for the computer technology company’s “Campus Store Solution,” an ...