DOL Lawyer Behind Oracle Case Chooses Termination Over Transfer

The U.S. Labor Department’s top West Coast litigator, who spearheaded a high-profile pay-discrimination case against Oracle America Inc., has declined an involuntary transfer to a non-legal post, allowing the Trump administration to terminate her.

Janet Herold, the department’s solicitor for the Western region, was notified in July that she was being reassigned to head the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Chicago office.

In August she filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia had illegally moved to reassign her in retaliation for voicing concerns internally that, in her view, he was trying to improperly intervene in the ...