To Taxing Matters: Fair enough. I have no argument with your last post. I used IRS as an example because unlike EEOC they have real power that will get any employers attention. I got my last job because my predecessor was fired as a direct result of an IRS audit. I was very specifically told in job interviews that I can never let something like that happen again.

To OP: I agree with everything CBG told you. Other then maybe CIA (or FBI under Hoover), federal agencies do not act like that. More to the point, employers do not act like that, at least not because someone told them to. Really stupid actions by employer in my experience are always self inflicted. If anything remotely like that had been happened at any of my prior employers, I would have heard about it.

Contact a labor law attorney if you want to go that route. Most attorneys are contract law unless otherwise advertised. I am far from a SH expert but I have had dozens of hours of supervisor training, and companies I have worked take SH very seriously. They are not going to conspire with someone to break the law for no possible benefit. Qui Bono.