TOOL G International Best Practices for Whistleblower Policies

While whistleblower protection laws are increasingly popular, in many cases the rights have been largely symbolic and therefore counterproductive. Employees have risked retaliation, thinking they had genuine protection when in reality there was no realistic chance that they could maintain their careers. In those instances acting on rights contained in whistleblower laws has meant the near certainty that a legal forum would formally endorse the retaliation, leaving the careers of reprisal victims far more prejudiced than if no whistleblower protection law had been in place at all. The Government Accountability Project’s review of the track records for these and prior laws over the ...

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