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UK: HSF Global Guide to Whistleblowing
Herbert Smith Freehills has published the first edition of a Global Guide to Whistleblowing, providing a quick reference guide to the law and culture …
UK: New publications
GEO new guide for employers on Recruitment and Retention of Transgender Staff. Guidance from the Committee on Standards in Public Life on how public …
US: Second Circuit decision protecting internal whistleblowers creates circuit split
A recent decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (Bergman v Neo@Ogilvy LLC) held that the Dodd-Frank Act protects employee whistleblowers who …
UK: Whistleblowing - disclosure concerning alleged breach of four employees' contracts may satisfy "public interest" test
An employment tribunal was wrong to strike out a whistleblowing unfair dismissal claim on the basis that a disclosure concerning alleged breaches of the …
UK: New FCA and PRA whistleblowing rules
The FCA and the PRA have both published policy statements on their new rules on whistleblowing: FCA policy statement (PS15/24) entitled "Whistleblowing …
UK: Whistleblowing "public interest" requirement is low hurdle for workers
Whistleblowing law was amended in June 2013 to make protection conditional on the worker holding a reasonable belief that disclosure was in the "public …
UK: New publications
BIS has published Guidance for employers on whistleblowing, available here. It contains recommendations for writing and promoting whistleblowing …
UK: Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 - mandatory gender pay gap reports and zero hours contracts
The Small Business Enterprise and Employment Bill also received Royal Assent on 26 March, though commencement orders will be needed to bring the …
UK: Review of tribunal fees; prohibition on enforced subject access requests for criminal records; FCA/PRA whistleblowing proposals
The Business Secretary is reported to have launched a review of employment tribunal fees in light of inaction from the Ministry of Justice (see …
UK: Whistleblowing - normal jurisdictional test applies for unfair dismissal
The usual territorial limits for unfair dismissal claims apply to whistleblowing claims for automatically unfair dismissal or detriment, according to a …
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