The FCA and Senior Managers’ Regime (SMR) for Accountability The new UK rules on personal responsibility places firms and senior managers into a new world of regulatory requirements and obligations. It remains to be seen how industry standards will develop to protect well-intentioned senior managers from being held responsible for their firms’ regulatory breaches and… Continue reading Mind the Gap between Account and Ability
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 (1) (protection extends to all… Continue reading Nations with Rights Broader than the Employment Context (13)
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 Official Secrets Act) India WPA,… Continue reading UPDATED WHISTLEBLOWER LAWS WITH SIGNIFICANT NATIONAL SECURITY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT LOOPHOLES (12)
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, (Bosnia WPA) (2014) Canada, The… Continue reading Nations with dedicated whistleblower laws
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 or other betrayals of the… Continue reading International Whistleblowing Best Practice
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 build, re authenticate and re… Continue reading Is your Organisation an Early Adopter? Take a Chance on Me.
Knowing YOU, Knowing ME- Honesty Hypocrisy
“Morality is extolled—even enacted—not with an eye to producing a good and right outcome but in order to appear moral yet still benefit oneself” Research conducted on When Values and Behaviour Conflict asked a group of employees the following questions: “What are your most important moral values?” “What are some recent examples of things that… Continue reading Knowing YOU, Knowing ME- Honesty Hypocrisy
Myths And Masks Of Legislative Protection For Whistleblowers
Myths and Masks of Legislative Policy for Whistleblower Protection and how behavioural insights can assist in creating new standards of best practice. Over the last couple of weeks I participated in two events at opposite ends of the world, paralleled in focusing on whistleblowing and how to protect those who speak out. What became… Continue reading Myths And Masks Of Legislative Protection For Whistleblowers
The Power Punch That Silences Voice
When people have the ability to voice their opinions and have formal processes available to them why do we so often see that they refrain from doing so? Several theories of group behaviour, from Janis’s (1972) groupthink to threat rigidity (Staw, Sandelands, & Dutton, 1981), have shown that forces come into play that often limit… Continue reading The Power Punch That Silences Voice
Whistleblowers – Reluctant Heroes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvUZQ_FRkak Virtue may have its place, but when the executioner’s hand is near, weep your victim-hood as softly as you can. As a whistleblower who ‘won’ an eleven year war of attrition and secured justice I have been released from the entrapment of victimhood although I have been victimised. My work involves tireless campaigning to… Continue reading Whistleblowers – Reluctant Heroes
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