May 31, 2012 at 11:28 PM
A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a top ex-OSHA official who claims he blew the whistle by questioning the agency's recordkeeping enforcement activities, and that OSHA retaliated by placing him on paid leave for two years before eventually firing him in July 2009. The court remanded Robert Whitmore's case to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), saying an administrative judge ignored key evidence that should have been taken into account. The accusations of retaliation by OSHA re-emerge just as the agency works to beef up its whistleblower protection program (WPP) as an effecti