February 24, 2011 at 11:45 PM
OSHA’s “top-to-bottom” review of its whistleblower program offers a slew of recommendations designed to improve the program, but many of the agency's proposals do not directly address issues raised by the Government Accountability Office and the Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General. However, the Obama administration, in its fiscal 2012 budget request for OSHA, proposes $21 million specifically for the whistleblower program, which includes $6 million in new funding and 45 whistleblower investigators, but is vague on how the extra money would be spent. The additional resources are n