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Workers who want to blow the whistle should prepare themselves before moving forward BY JULIE ANN FORMOSO | SPECIAL TO VEGAS INC
Here’s a workplace scruples question: You discover your supervisor adding payroll hours to benefit a colleague. Or your company knowingly dumps chemical waste that could contaminate groundwater. Or the boss fudged paperwork to win a government contract. ¶ How would you respond? You can ignore it, of course. Or you could let someone know. ¶ If it’s the latter, the situation could WHISTLEBLOWERS, CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
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Construction workers in Nevada, down from 146,000 during the pre-recession peak, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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People cared for by medical providers who are paid based on health outcomes of patients, part of a growing alternative reimbursement trend, according to UnitedHealth.
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