Dec. 8, 2017
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Employee Receives Court-Ordered RestitutionAfter Justified Whistleblowing Action
SYRACUSE, NY – A board and adjudicator ordered Albany-based asbestos abatement and annihilation aggregation Champagne Demolition, LLC and its owner, Joseph A. Champagne, to pay $173,793.84 to a above agent who was accursed in June 2010 afterwards advertisement abnormal asbestos abatement practices at a academy worksite in Gloversville, New York.
The acumen supports a U.S. Department of Labor accusation that begin Champagne Demolition, LLC abandoned the employee’s bigmouth rights. The aggregation charge pay $103,000 in aback wages, $20,000 in compensatory, and $50,000 in castigating damages.
On June 10, 2010, the agent abreast aggregation administration of the abnormal practices. The agent was accursed the abutting day and subjected to exact threats and acknowledged action. A complaint was filed with the Department's Occupational Assurance and Bloom Administration (OSHA), which opened a bigmouth analysis and begin arete to the allegations.
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“We are admiring with the board adjudication and the judge’s cardinal to authority this employer answerable for actionable the employee’s rights,” said OSHA Bounded Administrator Robert Kulick, in New York. “Every artisan has the appropriate to address abeyant assurance and bloom hazards after abhorrence of harassment, termination, or retaliation.”
“This board adjudication and the judge’s cardinal on this case underscores the Labor Department’s charge to ensuring that the law is followed and employees’ appropriate to a advantageous and safe abode is maintained,” said Bounded Solicitor of Labor Jeffrey S. Rogoff, in New York.
OSHA enforces the bigmouth accoutrement of the Occupational Assurance and Bloom Act and 21 added statutes protecting advisers who address violations of assorted airline, bartering motor carrier, customer product, environmental, banking reform, aliment safety, bloom affliction reform, nuclear, pipeline, attainable busline agency, maritime, and balance laws.
Attorneys Allison Bowles, Amy Tai, and Darren Cohen of the bounded Office of the Solicitor in New York litigated the case. The bigmouth analysis was conducted by OSHA’s bounded Office of Bigmouth Protection Programs in New York.
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Under the Occupational Assurance and Bloom Act of 1970, administration are amenable for accouterment safe and benign workplaces for their employees. OSHA’s role is to ensure these altitude for America’s alive men and women by ambience and administration standards, and accouterment training, education, and assistance. For added information, appointment www.osha.gov.
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Acosta v. Champagne Annihilation LLC and Joseph A. ChampagneCivil Activity Number: 12-CV-01278
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Ted Fitzgerald, 617-565-2075, fitzgerald.edmund@dol.govJames C. Lally, 617-565-2074, lally.james.c@dol.gov
Release Number: 17-1640-NEW
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