Arkad Enterprises, Inc. v. Bureau of Labor & Industries

Arkad Enterprises, Inc. (petitioner) seeks review of a Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) order that held that it had violated ORS 654.062(5) by discharging an employee for cooperating with an Accident Prevention Division (APD) investigation. We affirm.

Petitioner, which is owned by Richard Chala, operates a truck wash. In 1988, Paul Madden and his brother both worked for petitioner. For some time before August, 1988, Chala had been receiving complaints about the truck wash, including that wash jobs were unsatisfactory, that truck wash hours were erratic and that employees, including…