FRSA ALERT! Railroads Lose Power To Interfere With Injured Workers’ Medical Treatment!
We are pleased to repost, with permission, this blog entry by Charlie Goetsch from trainlawblog.com, announcing a favorable and precedent-setting ...
Tag: FRSA
OSHA orders railroad to pay $800,000 to three injured workers
This week, OSHA found that Norfolk Southern Railway Co., a major transporter of commodities based in Norfolk, Virginia, owed over ...
NWC amicus brief urges protection for railroad workers
Today, attorney Stephen Kohn (Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center) and I are filing an amicus brief with the ...
OSHA finds Metro North retaliated against prior OSHA complaint
Terrence Blocker worked for the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company in New Haven, Connecticut, since 2003. He was a laborer in ...
NWC comments to OSHA on regs for NTSSA, FRSA, STAA and CPSIA
Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) submitted comments to the Department of Labor (DOL) on three sets of regulations for ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
OSHA to PATH: no retaliation against injured employee
One of the outcomes of the 9/11 Commission was that Congress passed two whistleblower protection laws for railroad and public ...
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