The Federal Employers Liability Act is the law that protects rail workers who are injured or killed on the job. The most important FELA case to reach the United States Supreme Court in the last 50 years was argued this morning. At stake is whether the FELA’s long recognized standard of relaxed causation—namely, that a
March 2011
FRSA Applies To Intrastate Commuter Railroads
By Charlie Goetsch on
Posted in Federal Rail Safety Act
After a supervisor for the Utah Transit Authority was fired for raising safety concerns, OSHA’s Whistleblower Office ordered him reinstated with over $150,000 in make whole economic damages. In refusing to dismiss that case, an ALJ has ruled that the FRSA protects any employee who raises safety concerns, even supervisors on an intrastate commuter railroad…