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Simon works for a pharmaceutical company that manufactures a new vaccine. The company has a contract with Medicare to distribute the vaccine to family physicians. In a recent meeting, the director of manufacturing disclosed that $10,000$ doses were made with $50\%$ less of the active ingredient. The president of the company tells Simon to ship these doses, since they will not do any harm to patients and will still provide some benefit. Simon calls Medicare and reports the situation. He is then fired. Simon$-$

is not protected for his disclosure, and was properly fired.

was an at$-$will employee, and has no cause of action.

is a whistleblower and protected under the Federal False Claims Act.

was properly terminated for cause.