The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is launching an alternative dispute resolution program in its Chicago and San Francisco regional offices for complaints filed with its Whistleblower Protection Program, the DOL said Tuesday.

The program will offer two voluntary methods of alternative dispute resolution: early resolution and mediation. When a whistle-blower complaint is filed with OSHA in one of the pilot regions, the parties will be notified of their alternative dispute resolution options and may work through an OSHA regional alternative dispute resolution coordinator to use these methods, the DOL said in its statement.

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