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Department of Labor Orders Trucking Company to Reinstate Truck Driver

Ana PopovichbyAna Popovich
September 8, 2020
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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ordered a trucking company based in California to rehire an employee who was “terminated for refusing to drive what the employee reasonably believed to be an overweight vehicle,” according to a July 15 press release.

After an investigation, OSHA ruled that JHOS Logistics and Transportation Inc. violated the Surface Transportation Assistance Act’s (STAA) whistleblower provision. Along with restating the employee, JHOS Logistics and Transportation Inc. must pay “more than $190,000 in back wages, $25,000 in punitive damages, $5,000 in compensatory damages and attorney’s fees.” Additionally, OSHA ordered the company to educate managers and employees about their rights under the STAA.

The employee had previously been reprimanded for driving an overweight vehicle: the load sizes in that instance and the instance for which they were fired were comparable, “which led the employee to reasonably believe the commercial motor vehicle was overweight.” The Department of Labor’s press release preserves the whistleblower’s anonymity.

“This order underscores the U.S. Department of Labor’s commitment to protect employees who report violations under Surface Transportation Assistance Act,” said OSHA Regional Administrator Barbara Goto about the finding. “OSHA enforces the legal provisions of the act, which protects employees who exercise their right to report health and safety concerns with commercial motor vehicles.”

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Ana Popovich is a contributing editor with Whistleblower Network News, where she writes about breaking whistleblower news, healthcare fraud whistleblowers, and Covid-19 fraud whistleblowers. Ana has a B.A. in English from Georgetown University. While at Georgetown, she was the marketing chair of an affinity group and wrote content for the McDonough School of Business’ Business for Impact program. In 2018, Popovich was a public interest legal intern at the whistleblower law firm Kohn, Kohn and Colapinto. 

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