Maine Recycling Corporation Retaliates on Whistleblower Employee with Firing

Investigator says whistleblower fired in retaliation

By Christopher Williams, Staff Writer

Jun 20, 2011 

A former driver for Maine Recycling Corp. claims the Lisbon Falls company fired him because he blew the whistle on their violations of transportation laws.
Dell Briggs of Lisbon filed a complaint with the Maine Human Rights Commission in Augusta over his alleged unfair termination. An agency investigator sided with Briggs and recommended to the agency that there were "reasonable grounds to believe that discrimination has occurred."

Under Maine law, employers are prohibited from retaliating against workers by firing, threatening or otherwise discriminating against them when those workers, acting in good faith, report to their employers or a public body what the workers reasonably believe is a violation of law or rule adopted under state law.

Briggs said he complained to MHRC that the company was breaking Department of Transportation laws when it told him he had to drive a 48-foot-long trailer more than 15 hours without break to Machias. The law requires drivers to keep log books when driving outside the 100-mile radius from the recycling center, the investigator's report said.
Briggs said, "I told management on multiple occasions that I was not comfortable driving some of the routes they sent me on because I believed they were not legal," he said. He also told the company's management that he thought the DOT would be interested in knowing of the illegal routes the company directed some of the drivers to travel.

http://www.sunjournal.com/city/story/1048147

Uh Oh! ? ? ?  This is very interesting.  Considering MRC has an "IN" with the Lisbon Police Department, We are wondering how Lisbon Police Chief David T. Brooks and his "Goon Squad" are going to "Fly Cover" on this one.   

Please 'stay tuned' this one is just 'hankering' for an all out assault on the keyboard. 

Cheers!