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Government call to clean up NDAs and give better legal protections for workers, welcomed by Protect (formerly known as Public Concern at Work)

25th July 2018 Protect welcomes the Equality and Women’s Committee’s report calling for a clean up of NDAs (non-disclosure agreements), which can silence whistleblowers. In a major report published today, following a wide-ranging six-month inquiry, (July 25) the Women and Equalities Committee have found the Government, regulators and employers are failing in their responsibilities to … Read more

More secrecy rights for business in the UK? No thanks!

21st March 2018 The government will shortly bring new EU rules on industrial espionage into UK law. But these rules, drawn-up with heavy corporate influence, could create a chill-effect on future corporate whistle-blowers and those who report their stories. The LuxLeaks scandal was one of a series of leaks that have exposed the tax shenanigans … Read more

War, Journalism and Whistleblowers: 15 years after Katharine Gun’s truth telling on the verge of the Iraq War’

28th March 2018 Katherine Gun blew the whistle on GCHQ spying on the UN Security Council, revealing an illegal attempt to undermine the democratic process and increase the appetite for war in Iraq. And she did it within 48 hours. The event ‘War, Journalism and Whistleblowers: 15 years after Katharine Gun’s truth telling on the … Read more

Social care needs a strong whistleblowing culture

18th April 2018 Social care in England is undervalued, underfunded and on the brink of collapse. Being old and in care can, for some people, feel precarious. The statistics showing the state of care homes across the UK are sobering. The Care Quality Commission regulator says almost one in four care homes are inadequate or … Read more

Stronger new laws for EU leave UK whistleblowers behind

UK whistleblowers will be ‘Brexit casualties’ as the EU gets set to shake up whistleblowing bringing in ground-breaking legal measures protecting both public and private sectors. The EU move on introducing a whistleblowing Directive – set to be made into whistleblowing legislation and policy – follows years of campaigning by NGOs, trade unions and journalists … Read more

Protect attends European Whistleblowing Directive launch

For the last 20 years, the UK has had in place statutory employment protection for those raising whistleblowing concerns within the workplace – under the whistleblowing law, PIDA (Public Interest Disclosure Act). It is hard to imagine that before this, a worker speaking up in the public interest could not be guaranteed the support of … Read more

War, journalism and whistleblowers: 15 years after Katharine Gun’s truth telling on the verge of the Iraq war

Katherine Gun blew the whistle on GCHQ spying on the UN Security Council, revealing an illegal attempt to undermine the democratic process and increase the appetite for war in Iraq. And she did it within 48 hours. The event ‘War, Journalism and Whistleblowers: 15 years after Katharine Gun’s truth telling on the verge of the … Read more