TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Federal labor officials have ordered JP Morgan Chase Bank to reinstate an employee who was fired for raising concerns over the firm’s failure to properly report financial transactions to government regulators.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the order Monday. It calls for New York-based JP Morgan to pay the employee about $200,000 in back pay, medical expenses and compensatory damages.
The employee was a loan delivery operations manager at...
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Month: March 2016
Volkswagen Employee Sues Seeking Whistleblower Protections Over Data Deletion
A German spokesman for Volkswagen declined to comment on the case, citing the fact that "as a matter of principle" the company didn't comment on legal proceedings concerning labor law, Reuters reported.
The Volkswagen scandal dates back to September, after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency discovered a so-called defeat device in the company's diesel cars. It turned out that those cars had software that could detect when the cars were being tested and would then improve test results ...
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Nuclear Workers Retaliated Against for Exposing Wrongdoing
In her job at the Savannah River Site nuclear weapons plant in South Carolina, Sandra Black was responsible for looking into concerns raised by employees about everything from health and safety to fraud, abuse, harassment and retaliation.
But in fall 2014, when federal investigators with the Government Accountability Office asked her whether she had the necessary independence to do her job, Black says she answered truthfully: She told them her supervisors had interfered with her wor...
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