Friday, November 19, 2004

OSHA Orders Controller to be Rehired

A former finance executive of an industrial-products company has regained his job and will receive back wages under the whistle-blowing provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

The Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered the American Standard Cos. and subsidiary Trane Corp. to reinstate former Trane controller David Windhauser, to pay him $105,489.55 in back pay and compensatory remedies, and to remove any disciplinary letters from his personnel file. OSHA determined that Windhauser had been fired in violation of Sarbox after he raised questions about company accounting practices to his supervisors.

"This is precisely the type of whistle-blowing activity that is protected under the law," said Patricia K. Clark, OSHA's regional administrator in New York, in a statement. "We are determined to enforce the law so that employees who expose corporate wrongdoing know they will be protected."

OSHA Orders Controller to be Rehired

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1 Comments:

: Too bad that activist judges make decisions without facts of the case. There were two audits and NO fraud was found. How is a "whistle blower" fired for blowing a whistle when there was no fraud? I see this new law protects incompetent employees as long as they cry wolf (fraud). Soon, there will be commercials for attorneys looking to make money from "whistleblowers". Can someone PLEASE get some common sense? Windhauser is INCOMPETENT AND HE WILL DO THIS AGAIN AND AGAIN UNTIL HE IS STOPPED.; May 09, 2005