Protection for whistleblowers provides the main focus for Charles Pigott’s employment legal update, in this week’s NLJ. Pigott, professional support lawyer, Mills & Reeve, covers a range of situations, including unpaid charitable trustees and job applicants. He writes that it is ‘hard to see the logic of excluding job applicants, given they fall within the employment provisions of [the Equality Act 2010]’.
He argues that, while whistleblowing protection is advancing incrementally with a little bit of help from the judiciary, reform is needed. He considers the possibility of legislation, given the Labour government has indicated it is considering creating an independent office of the whistleblower.
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