Secretary Solis answers concerns about DOL’s Whistleblower Protection Program
Last July, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Government Accountability Project ...
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Charleston Gazette calls for modernizing whistleblower protections
In an editorial yesterday, the Charleston Gazette of West Virginia called on Congress to pass a law to modernize the ...
DOL Inspector General finds flaws in most OSHA whistleblower investigations
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Last week the U.S. Department of Labor's Inspector General's office issued a report finding that ...
Metro report finds employees afraid to raise safety concerns
In June 2009, a Metrorail accident near Ft. Totten in Washington, DC, killed nine people. The National Transportation Safety Board ...
NWC files brief arguing that SOX protects disclosures to the media
On behalf of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), David Colapinto and I filed a friend-of-the-court brief last week arguing that ...
GAO Questions the Effectiveness of Labor Department’s Whistleblower Protection Program
The report indicates that OSHA, created to ensure safe and healthy working conditions for employees, is not doing enough to ...
DOL issues new regulations for whistleblower cases
Today the Department of Labor has issued new regulations for whistleblower claims under four new laws. These laws include two ...
DOL’s ARB announces two new members and new briefing policy
The U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) has issued a letter announcing the appointment of two new judges, ...
OSHA sues Kwick Stop in Shawnee, Oklahoma
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has announced that it filed a lawsuit in Oklahoma City against Modern Oil ...
Metro employees already have whistleblower protections
One of the problems of our current patchwork approach to whistleblower protection is that much of the public is unaware ...
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