July 9, 2020 | Headlines, NS, Whistleblower
(Source: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) press release, June 12, 2020) ATLANTA, Ga. — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered Norfolk Southern Railway Corp. to...
April 20, 2020 | Headlines, Whistleblower
(Source: U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) press release, April 16, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued interim guidance to advise...
April 13, 2020 | Headlines, Whistleblower
(Source: U.S. Department of Labor press release, April 10, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued interim guidance for enforcing OSHA’s recordkeeping requirements (29 CFR Part 1904) as it...
March 5, 2020 | Headlines, Short Line, Whistleblower
(Source: JD Supra, March 4, 2020) NEW YORK — In Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad Corp. v. the Department of Labor, No. 18-2888 (8th Cir. Jan. 30, 2020), a case under the Federal Railroad Safety Act (FRSA), the Eighth Circuit reasserted that claimants must prove...
February 6, 2020 | BNSF, Headlines, Whistleblower
(Source: U.S. Department of Labor press release, February 5, 2020) DENVER, Colo. — The U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado has ordered Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) to pay $696,173 in lost back and future wages to a former employee...
July 8, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Whistleblower
(Source: Boston 25 News, July 8, 2019) BOSTON — A former top MBTA safety official says in a whistleblower complaint that he was fired by the T as he investigated numerous safety violations and was even urged to alter a report about a runaway train, according to a...
February 25, 2019 | BNSF, Headlines, Whistleblower
(Source: National Law Review, February 24, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — On February 19th, a Colorado jury awarded Brandon Fresquez $1,050,000 in damages in his FRSA whistleblower retaliation claim against BNSF Railway Company. The verdict form reveals that the jury...
February 12, 2019 | BNSF, Headlines, Whistleblower
(Source: National Law Review, February 12, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Ninth Circuit’s recent opinion in Frost v. BNSF Railway Co. is an important win for whistleblowers in that it rejects employers’ attempts to impose a heightened causation burden on whistleblowers...
June 14, 2018 | Headlines, Teamsters, Whistleblower
(Source: Bloomberg News, June 13, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Raising awareness of OSHA’s whistleblower rules would improve the agency’s enforcement of laws banning retaliation against employees in the rail and trucking industries, business and worker representatives...
May 8, 2018 | Headlines, Whistleblower
(Source: Occupational Safety and Health Administration press release, May 3, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has scheduled a meeting June 12, 2018, in Washington, D.C., to solicit comments and suggestions from stakeholders in...
