WNN has covered the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) public meetings on its whistleblower program since October 2020. How have comments and complaints about the program shifted? Has the agency implemented any changes since hearing the public’s input on the program? WNN looks back on different meetings, reflects on the feedback OSHA has received, and learns about the future from a representative of OSHA’s whistleblower protection directorate.
OSHA’s Whistleblower Protection Program enforces 25 whistleblower statutes, conducts investigations, and issues decisions regarding whistleblowers.
The statutes protect “employees from retaliation for reporting violations of various workplace safety and health, airline, commercial motor carrier, consumer product, environmental, financial reform, food safety, health insurance reform, motor vehicle safety, nuclear, pipeline, public transportation agency, railroad, maritime, securities, tax, antitrust, and anti-money laundering laws and for engaging in other related protected activities,” OSHA’s website on the whistleblower program states.
The website spells out what retaliation can look like, what an “adverse action” could include, and provides other important information to employees searching for information on topics related to whistleblowing. It also includes information on time limits and procedures for filing whistleblower complaints, what to...
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