Monthly Archives: April 2016

Nations with Rights Broader than the Employment Context (13)

ATTACHMENT 2 Australia PIDA, Provision (Prov.) sec. 10, 15. (all civil and criminal liability) Bosnia WPA, Art. 6. (criminal liability) Ghana WPA, Art. 18 (any civil and criminal liability) Hungary PIDA, Art. 11 (all civil and criminal liability -- “any action … which may cause disadvantage”) India WPA, Ch. IV.11 [...]

April 21st, 2016|

UPDATED WHISTLEBLOWER LAWS WITH SIGNIFICANT NATIONAL SECURITY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT LOOPHOLES (12)

The list below does not cover restrictions on disclosures of classified information. The criteria are restrictions for disclosures of unclassified information by national security/law enforcement whistleblowers, or due process anti-retaliation rights that are weak or non-existent compared to the rest of the whistleblower law. Canada PIDA (No provision to override [...]

April 21st, 2016|

Nations with dedicated whistleblower laws

  ATTACHMENT 1 Australia, Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 (Aus. PIDA) Belgium, September 15, 2013. - Law on the Termination of a Suspected Violation of the Integrity in a Federal Administrative Authority by a Member of his Staff, (Belgium WPA), Bosnia, Law on Whistleblower Protection in the Institutions of Bosnia-Herzegovina, [...]

April 21st, 2016|

International Whistleblowing Best Practice

INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES FOR WHISTLEBLOWER POLICIES   November 8, 2015   by Tom Devine, Legal Director, The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a non-profit, nonpartisan public interest law firm that specializes in protection for genuine whistleblowers -- employees who exercise free speech rights to challenge institutional illegality, abuse of power [...]

April 21st, 2016|

Is your Organisation an Early Adopter? Take a Chance on Me.

"I've spent a period of ‘service’ on society’s boundaries"  Wendy Addison I blew the whistle on corporate corruption fifteen years ago, long before Julian Assange or Edward Snowden made the topic mainstream.  Securing justice after an eleven year battle whilst living in abject poverty has set me free to re [...]

April 16th, 2016|