Bechtel Construction Co. v. Secretary of Labor

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• holding that the plaintiff’s complaint that procedures the employer was using to handle an already identified safety risk was protected activity
• holding that “‘any other action’ . . . include[s] internal complaints made to supervisors and others” so long as the complaints “raised particular, repeated concerns about safety procedures”
• stating that under whistleblower provisions of'ERA, proximity in time is sufficient to raise an inference of discrimination
• holding pretextual nature of plaintiff’s termination was demonstrated by employer’s shifting explanations for its actions
• illustrating that the Secretary continued to apply his own statutory interpretation of provisions of the ERA in circuits that have no binding precedent despite the fact that another circuit disagreed with the Secretary's construction
• illustrating that the Secretary continued to apply his own statutory interpretation of provisions of the ERA in circuits that have no binding precedent despite the fact that another circuit disagreed with the Secretary's construction

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