The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA’s) recently released $583 million budget for fiscal year 2012 represents a $25 million increase from the year before largely targeted at supporting the Injury and Illness Prevention Program known as I2P2.  These funds would add 52 full-time employees to OSHA’s compliance safety and health officer workforce, as well as [...]

OSHA recently published a final rule that relaxes the procedures for filing a whistleblower retaliation complaint under the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 and six environmental statues applying to nuclear and environmental safety law.  Whereas previously the complaints were required to be made in writing, under the new regulations workers can now complain of retaliation [...]

An anonymous Wall Street banker was recently awarded $1.1 million under the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblower program.  In 1999 the whistleblower brought information to the IRS that exposed fraudulent accounting schemes in which Bankers Trust and other Wall Street firms helped Enron in creating projects that artificially duplicated tax deductions, allowing Enron to generate [...]