Ask the Lawyer received the following question (paraphrased for easier reading and clarity) from a reader on a legal matter that might be of interest to the entire audience. Q: A colleague regularly breakes rules from our employee conduct handbook. Several of us have kept notes documenting the incident and have reported it to management. The only incidents that have been addressed have been when one of us agreed to be named as the person that reported the behavior. For those people that fear retaliation because of being a subordinate of the problem employee, is it necessary to make a formal…