Updating author: Marc
Meryon
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Summary
Future developments
Action point checklist
Key references
Questions and answers
Legal background
Meaning of 'protected disclosure'
Disclosure to employer or other responsible person
Disclosure to the 'appropriate authorities'
Disclosure in other cases
Disclosures about exceptionally serious failures
Employment tribunals and remedies
Summary
3.1332
- Workers who 'blow the whistle' on their employer by making a 'protected
disclosure', ie a disclosure concerning an alleged criminal offence or other
wrongdoing, have the legal right not to be dismissed, selected for redundancy or
subjected to any other detriment (demotion, forfeiture of opportunities for
promotion or training, etc) for having done so. (See 3.1334 Legal background and 3.1335 Meaning of
'protected disclosure')
- Any term in a contract (whether a contract of employment or
otherwise) that purports to override a worker's right to make such a disclosure is null and void.
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