In a written comment to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”), attorney David J. Marshall, from the whistleblower law firm of Katz, Marshall & Banks in Washington, DC, strongly urged OSHA to implement its proposed rule strengthening employee protections under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”).   Marshall’s comments were directed to Dr. David Michaels, [...]

The Administrative Review Board (“ARB”) overturned a decision by an administrative law judge (“ALJ”) granting a motion for summary judgment for the employer in the case of Charles v. Profit Investment Management, et al.  In granting the motion for summary judgment, the ALJ concluded that Lisa Charles had failed to file a timely response to [...]

Katz, Marshall & Banks Partner David J. Marshall spoke with Human Resource Executive Online (“HREO”) about the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA”) publishing proposed rules for the handling of whistleblower investigations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (“SOX”), revising its Whistleblower Investigations Manual for the first time since 2003, and a recent survey conducted by Littler Mendelson regarding employer whistleblower preparedness. Marshall told HREO that [...]

Bond Laboratories and its former CEO Scott Landow illegally terminated an employee in violation of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, according to an Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) investigation. The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or “SOX,” passed in the wake of accounting scandals at Enron and Wordbank which sparked a crisis in investor [...]