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Eugene

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Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:44 AM Jan 2017

As Trump takes office, Wells Fargo website to aid employees vanishes

Source: Reuters

U.S. | Fri Jan 27, 2017 | 6:50am EST

As Trump takes office, Wells Fargo website to aid employees vanishes

By Sarah N. Lynch | WASHINGTON

After President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. Department of Labor quietly removed a special website it created as a resource for current and former Wells Fargo employees on workplace issues, including whistleblower retaliation complaints, according to a U.S. lawmaker.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, sent a letter on Friday to acting Labor Secretary Edward Hugler after discovering on Tuesday that the site, www.dol.gov/wellsfargo, read: "Page not found."

It is one of a growing number of web pages that have been removed since Trump became president. His administration also instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to remove pages on climate change.

Former Labor Department Secretary Thomas Perez created the special website last September, shortly after Wells Fargo was ordered to pay $190 million in fines and customer restitution after its high-pressure sales environment led to the opening of as many as 2 million accounts that customers may not have authorized.

Some of the bank's employees filed whistleblower complaints with the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, saying they had been fired for reporting the gaming by Wells Fargo, while others complained that they were forced to work late to meet sales quotas.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-labor-wellsfargo-idUSKBN15B14Q
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