Employment Law Review
Thompsons’ Employment Law Review is recognised as an authoritative source of comment and discussion from our trade union law specialists. Available to read here, and also via a weekly email bulletin, the Employment Law Review offers considerable insight into the latest issues affecting trade unions and their members.
Whistle-blowing
Whistle-blowing
Weekly Issue 643
In the public interest
When bringing a claim that relates to sensitive workplace information, workers just have to believe in what they are saying as opposed to proving it is true.
Whistle-blowing
Weekly Issue 636
Self-interest or public interest?
When blowing the whistle, workers have to prove certain things which includes showing that more people than just themselves would benefit from the disclosure.
Whistle-blowing
Weekly Issue 621
Fact of suspension
Although workers who blow the whistle are protected in law, that does not mean that any disadvantage they suffer must necessarily have arisen from that act.
Whistle-blowing
Weekly Issue 617
Protect whistleblowers
A charity wants to ensure that the UK maintains a similar level of protection with regard to disclosing information without permission, after we leave the EU.
Whistle-blowing
Weekly Issue 611
False rumours
Although defamatory gossip can qualify as a breach of the law, workers still have to show that the disclosure they made impacts on more than just themselves.
Whistle-blowing
Weekly Issue 568
EU whistleblowing
A new EU law is being proposed so that people who disclose workplace secrets are better protected in the event their employer takes action against them.
Whistle-blowing
Weekly issue 558
Self-interest
If a whistleblower makes a disclosure that only serves their own interest and does not benefit the public in general, there is no protection under the law.
Whistle-blowing
Weekly issue 550
Poor performance
The appeal court has held that it is not a whistleblowing dismissal if the person who made the decision to dismiss did not know about the protected disclosure.
Whistle-blowing
Weekly issue 543
Disclosure of interests
Although workers have to show that blowing the whistle on their employer was in the public interest, it does not have to be the main reason for doing it.
Whistle-blowing
Weekly Issue 528
Objective Disclosure
In whistleblowing claims where the person has been dismissed for making a disclosure, tribunals have to apply an objective test to decide if it was protected.
Agency workers
Weekly Issue 511
Protection for whistleblowers
A European Commission consultation seeks to collect information, views and experiences of protection for whistleblowers and ensure EU-wide minimum standards,
Whistle-blowing
Weekly Issue 505
Source of the breach
Potential whistleblowers must show a breach of legal obligation beyond a belief an action is wrong because they are immoral or undesirable only.