ML20100B765

Intervenor Exhibit I-MOSBA-272,consisting of File Number 90-ERA-30 Transcript Re Deposition of LB Glenn

ML20100B765
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Issue date:	10/11/1995
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OLA-3-I-MOS-272, NUDOCS 9601230136
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1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BEFORE THE U.S.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 2

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6 GEORGIA POWER. COMPANY,

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7 Respondent.

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13 14 DEPOSITION OF 15 LEE BROWN GLENN 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 BULL & ASSOCIATES COURT AND DEPOSITION REPORTERS 24 4651 Roswell Road, N.E.,

Suite F-504 Atlanta, Georgia 30342 25 (404) 256-2886 BULL & ASSOCIATES 9601230136 951011 PDR ADOCK 05000424 PDR

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Deposition of LEE BROWN GLENN 2

taken on behalf of the' Comp _ainant, 3

for the purpose of discovery, upon 4

cross-examination, before Susan E.

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Reporter, Certified Court Reporter 7

and Notary Public, at the Candler 8

Building, 127 Peachtree Street, 9

N.E.,

Suite 1400, Atlanta, Georgia, i

10 commencing at approximately 11 10:00 a.m.,

Thursday, August 23, 12 1990.

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A No, I do not.

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Okay.

What is the corporate 3

concerns procedure?

Is it a manual?

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It is one of any number of 5

procedures in the corporate guidelines, 6

procedures and guidelines, which the company l

7 issues and keeps up-to-date.

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that, I will say that we have an internal 9

operating procedure which gets into more 10 specifics on how we do things.

So maybe I 11 should differentiate between the two.

There is 12 a corporate concern procedure in the corporate 13 guicelines.

T1 e is an internal procedure 14 that we use that governs our day-to-day i

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Are you familiar enough with the l

17 internal operating procedure where you can tell 18 me what it is rather than having to refresh 19 your recollection with the documents?

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I believe so, yes.

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All right.

If a complaint is made 1

l 22 why don't you go through the procedure with me 23 from when someone initially contacts you to I

24 what happens from then on.

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When someone contacts us,'and a BULL & ASSOCIATES

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1 typical example would be by phone, we would 2

take down the specifics of the issues, get as 3

much information as we posslbly could from the 4

individual, identify what the circumstances are 5

relative to if the issue has already been 6

addressed to management or whether the employee 7

is extremely concerned about confidentiality 8

and desires not to have their name involved in 9

it, that type of issao would be resolved.

10 Once we had that information and 11 understanding on confidentiality, we would look 12 at the appropriate resources within the company 13 to investigate it.

I have a staff reporting to 14 me that does a majority of the investigations.

15 However, there are a number of issues where the 16 othe:

,rganizations within the company, such as 17 our internal auditing, or our security 1

18 department, or our equal employment opportunity 19 area, would be a more appropriate readily 20 available mechanism to address an issue.

So 21 we make that determination and then the 22 investigation is initiated.

If we are doing 23 the investigation we get in touch with the 24 appropriate people involved in the issue on all 25 sides of the management, employees, whoever i

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might be able to shed some relevant facts on 2

it.

3 Based upcn the investigation, review 4

of documentation, whatever is available, we 5

make a determination on the allegation as to 6

whether there is a problem, not a problem.

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there is, of course,. we would pursue with the 8

management and the affected area corrective 9

action.

If there's not a problem we will 10 report that back to the individual who j

11 contacted us if we know who they are.

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12 Obviously an anonymous concern is a 13 little more awkward, or less doable, unless 14 they call us back.

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'16 submitter, if they are unable to identify 17 anything that we have missed or express

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18 satisfaction then that would be the conclusion i

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Of course, if they identify a weakness in i

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Ultimately we reach 23 a point where we are quite satisfied that the i

24 issue has been addressed appropriately, the j

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appropriate, and we would pursue closure of the l

2 concern through a review process which would 3

include my review of the file.

Historically 4

there has been a 100 percent review of each 5

file by the law firm, a representative of the 6

law firm.

As of a few weeks ago that procedure 1

7 was changed where we no longer have a 100 j

8 percent review by the law firm.

9 Ultimately the concern would be 10 closed by a corporate officer's review of the 11 issues in response and then in certain cases it 12 would even require the review and approval of 13 the member of our management council or the 14 senior management team in the company.

15 Examples of when management council members 16 would become involved would be if the submitter t

17 were dissatisfied with the response we gave 18 them, they would receive all those concerns, 1

19 they would also see other concerns that we 20 identified as being of specific importance, j

21 or significance, in terms of the issue that was l

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Okay.

And what is the law firm that 24 reviews?

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It's Troutman and Sanders.

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GEORGIA:

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FULTON COUNTY:

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5 I hereby certify that the foregoing 6

deposition was stenographically recorded by i

7 me, as stated in the caption.

The deponent was 8

duly sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth, i

9 and nothing but the truth.

The colloquies, 10 statements, questions, and answers thereto 11 were reduced to typewriting under my direction 12 and supervision; and the deposition is a true 4

13 and correct record of the testimony / evidence 14 given by the deponent.

i 15 I further certify that I am not a 1

16 relative, employee, attorney or counsel of any I

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17 of the parties, nor am I financially interested 1

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