The Securities and Exchange Commission has voted to allow whistleblower employees to go straight to the SEC with information about securities law violations without reporting it to their employer, and still collect the full amount of the monetary reward authorized by the Dodd Frank financial reform act, according to a May 25, 2011 article in InvestmentNews entitled “SEC lets whistle-blowers bypass internal programs.” The SEC approved the rule by a 3-2 vote on Wednesday, May 25, 2011.