The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued an important decision for whistleblowers on July 26, 2012, in the case of WEC Carolina Energy Solutions, LLC v. Willie Miller a/k/a Mike Miller, et al. The Fourth...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) of the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) has issued a final rule implementing the whistleblower provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) of the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) has – for the fourth time in less than a year – ordered Omaha, Nebraska’s Union Pacific Railroad Co. to pay an...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) of the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced on July 19, 2012 that it had ordered two Illinois-based railroad companies to pay three workers a total of...
The U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (“MSPB” or “the Board”), the administrative agency responsible for adjudicating most employment disputes brought by federal government employees, issued a decision on July 16,...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) of the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) signed a memorandum of agreement on July 16, 2012 with the Federal Railroad Administration (“FRA”) of the U.S....
William Holowecki, formerly employed as the Information Systems Security Manager at Avaya Government Solutions, alleged in a complaint filed on July 12, 2012, that Avaya terminated him in violation of the False Claims Act...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) of the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced settlements in two whistleblower cases earlier this month. The first settlement, announced on July 2,...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) of the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) has issued final regulations mandating procedures for handling retaliation claims brought under the whistleblower...
In a similar decision to one we wrote about last month, the Southern District of New York has once again ruled that the amendments to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”) made by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform...