Revelations that the Labor Department has held internal discussions about ways to potentially break up OSHA's whistleblower protection program (WPP) and house part of it in the Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) have whistleblower advocates and OSHA's internal union upset. The advocates say shifting the entire program out of OSHA and housing it in a new independent DOL agency would be a better way to fix OSHA oversight problems identified in recent government audits. OSHA's internal union is upset it wasn't formally notified of the proposal. Public Employees for Environmental Responsi
