Osha Section 11 C

Section 11 c of the occupational safety and health act of 1970 osh act prohibits employers from retaliating against employees for exercising a variety of rights guaranteed under the osh act such as filing a safety or health complaint with osha raising a health and safety concern with their employers participating in an osha inspection or reporting a work related injury or illness.

Osha section 11 c. As set forth under 29 cfr 1977 18 and 23 it has been the practice for federal osha to receive and process section 11 c complaints from employees in state plan states if the employee chooses to file with federal osha rather than a state program. Section 11 c prohibits persons from retaliating against employees for engaging in activity related to safety or health in the workplace. Occupational safety and health act osh act section 11 c whistleblower protection program.

Section 11 c provides in general that no person shall discharge or in any manner discriminate against any employee because the employee has. B instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding under or related to the act. Employer safety incentive and disincentive policies and practices memorandum section 11 c of the osh act prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee because the employee reports an injury or illness.

All employees are afforded the full protection of section 11 c. When an employee believes that this provision has been violated he or she may file a complaint with osha within 30 calendar days of the adverse action. Any person adversely affected or aggrieved by an order of the commission issued under subsection c of section 10 may obtain a review of such order in any united states court of appeals for the circuit in which the violation is alleged to have occurred or where the employer has its principal office or in the court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit by filing in such court within sixty days following the issuance of such order a written petition praying that the order be.

Section 11 c 1 of the act provides. For purposes of the act an employee is defined as an employee of an employer who is employed in a business of his employer which affects commerce the act does not define the term employ.