Isabelle Celebrating 30 years of supporting whistleblowers In 2022 Protect advised almost 2,500 individuals and supported around 220 employers with their whistleblowing arrangements Thursday 6th June 2023 The UK’s whistleblowing charity, Protect, celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2023 and today publishes its impact report and annual report for 2022. Launching its report, the charity highlights: Protect … Read more
Paying People to do the Right Thing: The pros and cons of adopting US-style whistleblower rewards programmes. Should there be a financial reward for whistleblowing? Does this encourage speaking out or is it an effective shortcut for regulators? Does it create a system where money and not the public interest is the motivation? A whistleblowing … Read more
Jonathan Taylor shares his journey of becoming a whistleblower and the appalling consequences he faced for exposing corporate wrongdoing on Protect’s The Inside Story podcast. Blowing Open the Lid on Corporate Malfeasance Jonathan worked as an in-house lawyer at SBM Offshore, a Monaco-based Dutch oil and gas services company. He exposed a systemic network of … Read more
NHS falls short on staff training Just one of 199 trusts analysed in England has a specific sexual harassment module, a failure on the NHS’ behalf to protect members of staff from harm. Training should be mandatory in order to prevent victimisation. (The Guardian) More sexual harassment whistleblowers Alleged behaviour of Tesco Chairman dangerously … Read more
More on CBI sexual misconduct See Protect’s comment on recent CBI sexual misconduct and Tony Danker’s firing. (HR Grapevine) Tech in trouble Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistle-blower, made the world aware of the harm tech companies can cause. Since, what has changed and how has whistleblowing helped change it? (Lawfare) + Some top US … Read more
You can use this template to help you prepare a schedule of loss for an Employment Tribunal claim. You can find more information about compensation and remedies in whistleblowing cases here. Download the template (doc) Download an example of how to use this template (pdf)
