On April 19, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey granted the defendant-employer's motion to dismiss a complaint seeking court enforcement of a preliminary reinstatement order after determining that the court lacked jurisdiction to enforce such orders. Gulden v. Exxon Mobil Corp., No. 22-cv-7418.
Background
As we previously reported, on October 7, 2022, OSHA announced that it had ordered the Company to immediately rehire two computational scientists who alleged that they were fired in retaliation for leaking to the media...