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 ...
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OSHA announces Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee
In a notice published in yesterday's Federal Register, Dr. David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, ...
OSHA issues new manual for whistleblower investigations
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a new Whistleblower Investigations Manual last year. The new manual includes some ...
OSHA sides with former pilot who blew the whistle at AirTran Airways
Last week, the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ordered AirTran Airways to reinstate a whistleblower pilot ...
Kwick Stop in Shawnee, Oklahoma, settles retaliation case
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has announced a settlement with Modern Oil Company, the operator of the Kwick Stop ...
OSHA orders reinstatement of Memphis truck driver
Yesterday, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) office in Atlanta, Georgia, issued an order reinstating truck driver William Beecher. ...
DOL proposes increase in whistleblower protection program
The U.S. Department of Labor, for the first time, has proposed making its whistleblower protection program a separate line item. ...
DOL issues new final rules for environmental whistleblowers
The U.S. Department of Labor has finally issued its responses to comments submitted in 2007 about its interim regulations for ...
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 ...
Amicus briefs address OSHA complaints and protected activity
My colleague, Stephen M. Kohn (Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center) and I spent New Year's Eve racing the ...
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