The U.S. Department of Labor has won a jurisdictional challenge in U.S. district court in a whistleblower case against a Palmetto-based charter school, the agency announced Monday.The dispute, against Renaissance Arts and Education Inc., doing business as Manatee School for the Arts, pertains to a determination by the department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration that the school unlawfully fired a worker for voicing and reporting concerns about safety hazards.In the case, the employee submitted a letter to his direct supervisor on June 20, 2009, addressing perceived safety haz...
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