Employee Health and Safety Whistleblower Protection Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, on S. 436 ... March 7, 1989, Volume 4

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Page 157 - It is one of the happy incidents of the Federal system that a single courageous State, may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
Page 262 - Act, the provisions of sections 9 and 10 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of September 16, 1914, as amended (15 USC 49, 50), are hereby made applicable to the jurisdiction, powers, and duties of the...
Page 263 - ... requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses or the production of any evidence in such proceeding or investigation requested in such application.
Page 1 - The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:30 am, in room SD-430, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Metzenbaum, Wellstone, and Jeffords.
Page 133 - The condition causing the employee's apprehension of death or injury must be of such a nature that a reasonable person, under the circumstances then confronting the employee, would conclude that there is a real danger of death or serious injury and...
Page 262 - ... any documentary evidence of any corporation being investigated or proceeded against; and the commission shall have power to require by subpoena the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of all such documentary evidence relating to any matter under investigation.
Page 290 - Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Labor of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare on S.
Page 164 - Disposal Act; county landfill employee). In contrast, a state employee was held not protected under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act on the theory that the state is not a person within the meaning of $ 703 of that Act.
Page 269 - Any period of limitation ... is understood fully only in the context of the various circumstances that suspend it from running against a particular cause of action. Although any statute of limitations is necessarily arbitrary, the length of the period allowed for instituting suit inevitably reflects a value judgment concerning the point at which the interests in favor of protecting valid claims are outweighed by the interests in prohibiting the prosecution of stale ones.
Page 193 - ... or the environment, Congress should consider whether it is appropriate that enforcement of the regulatory scheme be strengthened by providing whistleblower protection for the industry's employees who report statutory violations. The study also indicated that access to written decisional precedents in these cases needs to be improved. The Department of Labor's Office of Administrative Law Judges does not yet publish its decisions (although it has recently announced plans to do so), and a unified...

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