• posted: Jan. 24, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• employer retaliation,  healthcare fraud,  workplace safety

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of nurses and other healthcare professionals in a whole new way. Nurses are on the “front lines” of healthcare, often the first people to Read More

• posted: Aug. 11, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination,  Covid-19
• employer retaliation,  whistleblower retaliation,  covid-19,  workplace safety

A judge awarded a former U.S. Forest Service firefighter $115,000 in back pay, siding with the firefighter in his whistleblower retaliation claim against the Forest Service. The firefighter, Pedro Rios, claimed Read More

• posted: Dec. 23, 2021
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Covid-19
• nursing home,  covid-19,  workplace safety

In a September article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, a whistleblower alleges executives of St. Therese of New Hope nursing home instructed staff to ignore protocols related to the COVID-19 Read More

• posted: Jan. 21, 2021
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• OSHA,  Occupational Safety and Health Administration,  covid-19,  workplace safety

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a surge of whistleblower complaints to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. A significant portion of these complaints are related to claims of retaliation Read More

• posted: Jan. 04, 2021
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• covid,  covid-19,  workplace safety

A teacher at H.D. Berkey Elementary School in New Kensington, Pennsylvania recently submitted an anonymous letter to Action News 4 in Pittsburgh containing concerns about the New Kensington Arnold School Read More

• posted: Nov. 26, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• employer retaliation,  covid,  covid-19,  workplace safety

Katrina Bryant, a former worker at a construction site for a new Amazon warehouse in Boardman, Oregon, alleges she was the victim of wrongful termination after she raised concerns to Read More

• posted: Nov. 09, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• covid,  covid-19,  workplace safety

After months of negotiations, members of the Bartenders Union Local 165 and Culinary Workers Union Local 226 have new agreements in place with a pair of the Las Vegas Strip’s Read More

• posted: Sep. 07, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• OSHA,  anti-retaliation program,  workplace safety

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently issued a reminder to employers across the United States that any form of retaliation against employees who blow the whistle on suspect Read More

• posted: Aug. 17, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• wrongful termination,  covid-19,  workplace safety

A Detroit nurse was fired after posting a video on Facebook discussing the working conditions at her place of employment, Sinai Grace hospital. Now she has sued the hospital seeking Read More

• posted: Jul. 30, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• covid-19,  workplace safety

Meat packing plants across the nation have been in the news throughout the spring for the challenges they’ve faced in staying operational while also keeping their employees safe from the Read More