Successful whistleblowing claims can attract heavy compensation for employers to bear, and do not require the claimant to have a minimum period of service. Employees who have made a ‘protected disclosure’ regarding their employer’s malpractices are protected from dismissal and detriment (which is unfavourable treatment short of dismissal). As such, Read more…
You may recall the case of Chesterton which we discussed in our last blog about whistleblowing. In Chesterton the EAT considered the meaning of the “public interest” test. This test was inserted into the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (the Act) in the hopes it would prevent employees making allegations about Read more…
The law on protection for “whistleblowers” is contained within the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998. A couple of years ago the Government made some amendments to this Act, the most important of which was widely reported to be a new requirement that disclosures needed to be made in the “public Read more…
The Supreme Court has held that a former equity partner of a law firm incorporated as a limited liability partnership (LLP) was clearly a worker and therefore eligible to bring a whistleblowing claim against the LLP. As a result of this decision, LLP members will become entitled to a range Read more…
The law in relation to “whistleblowing” in the UK was introduced by the Government in 1998 to protect genuine whistleblowers in the workplace and thereby encourage a culture of openness and good governance. In practice many threatened “whistleblowing” claims tend to be more about an individual seeking to maximise their Read more…