The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued an Interim Final Rule spelling out the procedures under which it handles whistleblower retaliation complaints filed under the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act (CAARA). Enacted in 2020, CAARA prohibits an employer from taking adverse action or otherwise discriminating against an employee who reports alleged criminal antitrust violations to a federal regulatory or law enforcement agency, to Congress, to a supervisor, or to a person who has the authority to investigate, discover, or terminate misconduct. Examples of such violations include price-fixing, bid-rigging, or market allocation schemes.
Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) can read more here.