The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has announced that it will conduct an "OSHA listens" meeting. The meeting was originally scheduled for Wednesday, February 10, 2010, but has now been postponed due to the weather here. To speak...
Today was the first day on a new job for E. Cooper Brown as he begins his service as Vice-Chair of the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). Brown had served on the ARB in the 1990's, until the...
The Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) has issued a decision reversing a recommended decision of an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ). The decision finds that nuclear whistleblower James Speegle is entitled to statutory remedies for Stone & Webster's 2004...
Public health researcher Celeste Monforton has written a blog entry highlighting the danger to public safety caused by the Senate's delay in confirming M. Patricia Smith as the new Solicitor of Labor. President Obama appointed Smith in April, and she...
It has now been seven (7) weeks since Hilda Solis was confirmed as Secretary of Labor, and in those seven weeks, that Department's Administrative Review Board (ARB) continues to churn out decisions that run against the purpose of protected whistleblowers...
Author and activist Randy Shaw today spoke in remembrance of Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW). He spoke to members of Local 12 of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). Randy recalled the sense of mission Chavez instilled...
A recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says what many whistleblower practitioners have long known: the Department of Labor's whistleblower program needs more resources and better quality. Investigators do not have the equipment, training, legal counsel or oversight...
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