OSHA Announces Restructuring of Whistleblower Program to Increase Priority...
Last week, the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a major restructuring of its Office of the Whistleblower Protection Program. As a result of the...
View ArticleDollar Tree Stores Cited by OSHA with Repeat Workplace Safety Hazards for...
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Chesapeake, Virginia-based Dollar Tree Stores with repeat workplace safety hazards at a Newark, New Jersey...
View ArticleU.S. Department of Labor Files OSH Act Lawsuit Against Florida Canvas...
The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) filed a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit against Aquatech Canvas & Consignment, a division of LOTO Services, LLC,...
View ArticleSt. James Stevedoring Partners LLC Agrees to Pay River Barge Captain $245,000...
On April 23, 2012, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that St. James Stevedoring Partners LLC, a New Orleans-based riverboat company, has agreed to pay $245,000 to settle allegations that it...
View ArticleOSHA Orders Tennessee Trucking Company to Reinstate Whistleblower and Pay...
On May 3, 2012, the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced that it ordered Mark Alvis, Inc., a Tennessee-based commercial motor carrier, to reinstate a...
View ArticleLaw360 Interviews R. Scott Oswald, Managing Principal of The Employment Law...
R. Scott Oswald, managing principal of The Employment Law Group® law firm was recently interviewed by Law360 regarding the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA)...
View ArticleOSHA Orders Alaska-Based Youth Treatment Provider to Reinstate Whistleblower...
In a press release issued last week, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced that Anchorage, Alaska- based North Star Behavioral Health System has...
View ArticleOSHA Orders Norfolk Southern Railway to Pay Whistleblowers Over $800,000...
Norfolk Southern Railway, a railroad operator based in Norfolk, Virginia, has been ordered by the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to pay $802,168.70 to settle...
View ArticleReal Estate Management Company Agrees to Pay $45,000 to Settle OSHA...
Earlier this month, CMM Realty Inc., a real estate management company headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina, entered a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and...
View ArticleUnion Pacific Railroad Agrees to Pay Whistleblower $38,000 to Settle...
Omaha, Nebraska-based Union Pacific Railroad Co. has agreed to pay an employee $38,561.92 in punitive damages for violating the whistleblower provision for the Federal Railroad Safety Act when it...
View ArticleDepartment of Labor’s Administrative Review Board (ARB) Expands Procedural...
Last month, in Evans v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, ARB No. 08-059, ALJ No. 2008-CAA-3 (ARB July 31, 2012), the Administrative Review Board (ARB) of the U.S. Department of Labor...
View ArticleOSHA Announces Launch of Alternative Dispute Resolution Program for...
Earlier this month the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced that it will be launching an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) pilot program for...
View ArticleNorthern Illinois Flight Center Ordered to Reinstate and Pay Whistleblower...
Following an investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) the Northern Illinois Flight Center has been ordered to reinstate an Illinois...
View ArticleOSHA Announces Appointment of New Whistleblower Protection Program Director
On November 20, 2012, the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Assistant Secretary Dr. David Michaels announced that Beth Slavet has been appointed as the new...
View ArticleDepartment of Labor Files Suit against Florida Construction Company for...
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida against Duane Thomas Marine Construction LLC and owner Duane Thomas for violating...
View ArticleOSHA Finds BNSF, Rail Company Owned by Berkshire Hathaway, Liable in Three...
The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found a railway company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway liable in three retaliation complaints brought by employees....
View ArticleFederal District Court in New York Holds that Retaliation under FRSA is...
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York recently denied summary judgment in a suit filed by Robin Young against his former employer, CSX Transportation. Young alleged that CSX...
View ArticleDepartment of Labor Administrative Review Board Upholds Compensatory Damages...
On November 3, 2014, the U.S. Department of Labor Administrative Review Board ruled that a pilot was entitled to compensatory damages for retaliation by Continental Airlines for his protected refusal...
View ArticleSixth Circuit Rules that Job Applicants not Covered by Whistleblower Statutes
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently ruled that federal statutes do not protect a job applicant from retaliation by a prospective employer based on whistleblowing at a previous...
View ArticleAdverse Action Extends to Employee Sent Home to Obtain Medical Release
On March 20, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Administrative Review Board affirmed an Administrative Law Judge’s holding in Jackson v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., finding that sending an employee...
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