A House of Commons Briefing Paper is available covering Whistleblowing and Gagging Clauses.
The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 came into force on 2 July 1999. The Act protects workers who disclose information about malpractice at their workplace, or former workplace, provided certain conditions are met. The conditions concern the nature of the information disclosed and the person to whom it is disclosed. If these conditions are met, the Act protects the worker from suffering detriment as a result of having made the disclosure. If the conditions are not met a disclosure may constitute a breach of the worker’s duty of confidence to his employer.
Download the PDF of the paper here.
Comment
The briefing paper does make for interesting reading in particular the section on ‘Recent changes to the law’.
With thanks to Daniel Barnett’s Employme
