Chicago IL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered two railroad companies to pay three workers a total of $650,729.14 in back wages and damages for retaliating against them for reporting workplace injuries and safety concerns. The orders resulted from investigations conducted by the Chicago office of the department’s Occupational Safety and Health […]
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May 27, 2012|Kirstin Ridley | Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – Michael Woodford, the ousted chief executive of Olympus, will try to persuade a London judge his embattled former employer fired him because he blew the cover off one of Japan’s most high-profile corporate frauds. The five-day hearing, which starts on Monday, will throw the spotlight back […]
I followed the law and it didn’t work.’ By GERRY GOLDSTEIN, Valley Breeze & Observer Correspondent SMITHFIELD – Psychiatric nurse Jeannine Peterson, a rock-climber when she’s not in uniform, is accustomed to scaling barriers, but she hasn’t been able to get past the fallout from her latest role in life: whistleblower. It was a phone […]