Summary: OSHA Lawsuit

OSHA Lawsuit The U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana against a Helena-based company named Kbec Inc. in January 2013. Kbec Inc. is a Dairy Queen franchisee that, “illegally terminated an employee for making complaints regarding workplace violence at the company 's facility.” (Todd & Rodriguez, 2013). In this article, there are no details given on what was the nature of the complaints filed by the employee originally, however, searching the internet for other related articles, I found one of a reason for which the employee may had been terminated, “OSHA says the employee was fired after complaining about a potentially unsafe situation of finding the building unsecured when she arrived, alone, to open the store. The worker also filed a safety and health complaint with OSHA, which triggered an OSHA inspection that identified two unrelated violations.” (Two Whistleblower…, n.d., p. xx-xx).
could have done a lot to address the situation as soon as it learned of the complaint. First of all, securing the doors of the business should have been of outmost priority, not only to insure the safety of the employees, but to safeguard the equipment, inventory and other items that may been left in the store overnight. Launching an investigation to find out why the door was not secured, should not have been a major issue as it was. Making sure the employee’s was heard and safety precautions put in place should be a first priority to every employer, these safeguards could not have been costly at all either, there should not have been any