On August 30, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) released a pair of decisions: Wendt Corporation, 372 NLRB No. 135 (2023) and Tecnocap, LLC, 372NLRB No. 136 (2023),...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Peter Krieger, the former non-executive chairman of Florida-based Oban Energies, of misappropriating $5.2 million of Oban investor funds between 2017 and 2020. The SEC charged Krieger with four counts of violating the Securities Exchange Act. In a court document filed in Florida last week, the SEC said,
Plaintiff’s complaints about safety concerns were made only to his supervisors; his complaints to the human resources department and to the U.S. Department of Labor were that he had been retaliated against for complaining to management about unsafe conditions and for refusing to perform an unsafe task. Under Pierce v. Atlantic Group, Inc., 219 N.C. ...