Whistleblower Advocates Slam OSHA Over Reported Effort To Break Up Program

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