Employment

Jovan Palmieri, the former District Chief of the St. Paul, Minnesota, Fire Department, has accused Fire Chief Butch Inks and Assistant Chief Michael Gaede of favoritism and retaliation against trainees and employees. The complaint, filed on August 8, describes a...

Alexander Vindman, the retired lieutenant colonel who testified at Trump’s impeachment hearings, recently released a statement explaining his retirement and encouraging others to step forward when they see corruption in the federal government. On August 1, Vindman published an opinion...

California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) placed its executive director, Alice Stebbins, on leave, and she in danger of being fired. She claims that this is an act of whistleblower retaliation, according to an August 5 KQED article. In a letter...

On August 4, a group of twenty-one U.S. Senators sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regarding the disproportionate amount of whistleblower retaliation acts against Black and Latino workers. ...

July 30 was National Whistleblower Day.  In celebration of the day, the National Whistleblower Center hosted a virtual conference which featured speeches and panel discussions by whistleblowers, whistleblower advocates, and government officials.  One of the panels was titled “Covid-19 Crisis:...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the U.S. Department of Labor ordered Norfolk Southern Railway Corp. to reinstate and pay an employee more than $150,000 in backpay for retaliation for reporting an “on-the-job injury.” OSHA announced the order...

On Thursday, several U.S. senators questioned Amazon’s firing of four whistleblowers who raised safety concerns over the spreading of coronavirus in warehouses. In a letter sent to Jeff Bezos, CEO of the e-commerce giant, nine senators asked Amazon to clear...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to close down non-essential businesses throughout the United States, workers are calling for workplace safety laws to protect them from hazardous conditions. Today, in an article published by the National Law Review, whistleblower attorney Stephen...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently reminded employers that it is illegal to retaliate against employees who report unsafe and unhealthy working conditions during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis. OSHA’s Whistleblower Protection Program enforces the provisions of more than...

The U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado recently ordered a Railway to pay damages to a whistleblower who suffered retaliation. The whistleblower received over $1.74 million from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) to cover lost wages,...