Energy.gov

Janet Benson (Benson or Complainant) filed a Complaint of Retaliation alleging that her former employer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL or the Laboratory), retaliated against her for engaging in activity that is protected by 10 C.F.R. Part 708, the Department of Energy’s Contractor Employee Protection Program. On August 21, 2002, the Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) of the Department of Energy issued a Decision and Order granting relief to Benson in connection with that complaint. Janet K. Benson, 28 DOE ¶ 87,027 (2002) (Benson).

This Decision considers an Appeal of an Initial Agency Decision (IAD) issued on May 8, 2002, involving a Complaint filed by Susan Rice Gossett (Gossett or the Complainant) under the Department of Energy (DOE) Contractor Employee Protection Program, 10 C.F.R. Part 708. In her Complaint, Gossett claims that her former employer, the Safety and Ecology Company (SEC) terminated her as a retaliation for making disclosures that are protected under Part 708. 1/ In the IAD, the Hearing Officer determined that Gossett was entitled to relief. Susan Rice Gossett, 28 DOE ¶ 87,020, Case No.

Mark J. Chugg, a former employee of Bechtel BWXT Idaho (BWXT), a Department of Energy (DOE) contractor, appeals the dismissal of his whistleblower complaint filed under 10 C.F.R. Part 708, the DOE Contractor Employee Protection Program. BWXT is the Management and Operating contractor for the Department of Energy at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL). On September 30, 2002, the Employee Concerns Program Manager at the DOE’s Idaho Operations Office (DOE/ID) dismissed Mr. Chugg’s complaint.

Janet Westbrook (Westbrook or Complainant) filed a Complaint of Retaliation alleging that her former employer, UT-Battelle, LLC (Battelle or the Company), the DOE contractor that manages the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (the Laboratory or ORNL), terminated her as part of a reduction in force (RIF) as a retaliation for making disclosures that are protected under 10 C.F.R. Part 708.

This Initial Agency Decision concerns a whistleblower complaint filed by Sue Rice Gossett (Gossett) against her former employer, the Safety and Ecology Corporation (SEC), under the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Contractor Employee Protection Program, which is codified at 10 C.F.R. Part 708. SEC is a sub-contractor of Bechtel Jacobs Corporation (BJC), the DOE’s Managing Contractor at the Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio (Portsmouth).

This Decision considers an Appeal of an Initial Agency Decision (IAD) issued on May 22, 2002, involving a Complaint filed by Janet K. Benson (Benson or the Complainant) under the Department of Energy (DOE) Contractor Employee Protection Program, 10 C.F.R. Part 708. In her Complaint, Benson claims that her former employer, Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL or the Laboratory), retaliated against her for engaging in activity that is protected by 10 C.F.R. Part 708, the Department of Energy’s Contractor Employee Protection Program.

This Decision involves a whistleblower complaint filed by William Cor under the Department of Energy's (DOE) Contractor Employee Protection Program. From August 1998 to September 2001, Mr. Cor was employed as a glovebox systems engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), one of three national laboratories operated by the University of California (UC) for the DOE. Mr. Cor alleges that LANL management retaliated against him for activity protected under the DOE Contractor Employee Protection Program.

On November 16, 2001, BWXT Pantex, as successor to Mason & Hanger Corporation (M&H) (collectively referred to as “the contractor”), filed an appeal of an Initial Agency Decision (IAD) issued by an Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) Hearing Officer under the Department of Energy (DOE) Contractor Employee Protection Program, 10 CFR Part 708. Robert Burd, 28 DOE ¶ 87,017 (2001). The IAD found that the contractor terminated Robert Burd (the complainant), a former employee at the DOE’s Pantex nuclear weapons plant, in retaliation for making disclosures protected under Part 708.

This Decision involves a complaint filed by Ronald D. White (White or “Complainant”) under the Department of Energy (DOE) Contractor Employee Protection Program, codified at 10 C.F.R. Part 708. Complainant is a former employee of a DOE contractor, Midwest Research Institute (the contractor or MRI), the management and operating contractor of DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located in Golden, Colorado. According to White, the contractor made him the subject of reprisals because he made protected disclosures to DOE and the contractor in January 1999 and May 2000.

This Initial Agency Decision involves a whistleblower complaint filed by Mr. Bernard F. Cowan under the Department of Energy (DOE) Contractor Employee Protection Program, 10 C.F.R. Part 708. In his complaint, Mr. Cowan contends that reprisals were taken against him after he made certain disclosures concerning mismanagement and safety violations to DOE officials and to his employer, Argonne National Laboratory-West (ANL-W), a contractor for the DOE’s Chicago Operations Office (DOE/CH). Mr.