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Employment

The Long Road to Reform – Whistleblowing and the Employment Rights Bill

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After months of relentless campaigning and lobbying across Parliament this month we struck gold in the House of Lords when peers voted through one of our amendments to the Employment Rights Bill. Tabled by Baroness Kramer, the addition to the Bill pushes the Government to broaden unfair dismissal grounds and force employers, of a certain size and turnover, to take reasonable steps to investigate when whistleblowers speak up.

Legal challenge to give charity trustees vital whistleblowing legal protections

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Protect, the UK’s whistleblowing charity, is intervening in an important case before the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) which will consider whether charity trustees should have whistleblowing rights. There are nearly a million charity trustees in the UK. They are responsible for the proper governance of charities and have a duty to report wrongdoing when they see it. The case before the EAT will consider whether trustees can claim the protection of whistleblowing law if they suffer as a result of speaking up about wrongdoing.