Compliance

In a groundbreaking move, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced its largest-ever whistleblower award, totaling an unprecedented ...

The European Union (EU) has long been a proponent of harmonizing laws and regulations among its member countries to promote unity, economic growth, and ...

All the European Union member states are required to implement the EU law on whistleblower protection at the national level by means of an appropriate legal ...

Great Britain is certainly recognized as a country that excels among other European nationalities in...

Whistleblower Directive requires employers to "establish" internal channels and procedures. It states that the internal notification procedures shall be ...

On February 22, 2022, the French Parliament adopted new legislation - Proposition de loi visant...

The Whistleblower Directive of October 23, 2019 entered into force in the European Union countries...

We have developed an example of whistleblowing procedure for reporting irregularities and whistleblower protection, which is available for free download.

Establishing new procedures is the first stage of introducing the whistleblowing system to the entity. This stage is inseparably connected with the analysis ...

Guidelines for establishing, implementing and maintaining an effective whistleblowing management system based on the principles of trust, impartiality and ...

There may be several reasons for not blowing the whistle directly to one’s employer: the organization does not have any reporting channel available for ...

What if the whistleblower keeps reporting the same problem? Your investigation team has already carried out appropriate actions on several occasions in ...

Article 23 of the EU Whistleblowing Directive requires effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties for retaliation, obstruction, vexatious proceedings, and breach of confidentiality. Member State implementations vary widely, from EUR 1,500 fines in Luxembourg to EUR 10 million corporate fines in France ...

The objective of the Directive is to require undertakings and entities in the public sector to implement procedures that ensure that employees can report ...