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 ...
Tag: OSHA
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 ...
Robert C. Byrd Mine Safety Protection Act fails House motion
The Robert C. Byrd Mine Safety Protection Act included provisions to give workers modern whistleblower protections in mines, and in ...
Food safety bill will create new whistleblower protection; our patchwork has one less hole
Yesterday the U.S. Senate passed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), S. 510. It passed with strong bipartisan support. ...
My letter to Scientific American on PAWA
The December 2010 issue of Scientific American, page 12, features my letter to them about the Protecting America's Workers Act ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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