{"id":2649,"date":"2024-09-17T18:32:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T18:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-sustains-former-salesforce-vps-whistleblower-retaliation-suit\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T18:32:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T18:32:19","slug":"judge-sustains-former-salesforce-vps-whistleblower-retaliation-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-sustains-former-salesforce-vps-whistleblower-retaliation-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Sustains Former Salesforce VP&#8217;s Whistleblower Retaliation Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A former Salesforce executive can proceed with a whistleblower retaliation suit as he sufficiently established that he was engaged in protected activity when sounding the alarm about the company\u2019s purported plans to falsely inform the public that its Genie program operated in real time, a federal judge ruled last week.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/15CJFB1ELtcIqgeyPGvcNEQ4SDCbp2bur\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sept. 13 opinion<\/a>, U.S. District Judge\u00a0Angel Kelley for the District of Massachusetts denied Salesforce\u2019s motion to dismiss a wrongful termination suit brought by Karl Wirth, Salesforce\u2019s former vice president of product management. Wirth claims he was fired after raising concerns that Salesforce planned to falsely inform the public about Genie\u2019s capabilities at the 2022 Dreamforce conference. The case captioned <em>Karl Wirth v. Salesforce, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Salesforce executive can proceed with a whistleblower retaliation suit as he sufficiently established that he was engaged in protected activity when sounding the alarm about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[423,619,842,339,1621,3457,997],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-judge","tag-retaliation","tag-salesforce","tag-suit","tag-sustains","tag-vps","tag-whistleblower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}