Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)
Whistleblowing law is extremely complicated, and the information set out above is a summary only. Anyone contemplating blowing the whistle should take expert advice as soon as possible and talk to their union. The DBT business department non-statutory code of practice strongly discourages disclosure to the media, for example, warning that: “if a worker goes to the media, they can expect in most cases to lose their whistleblowing law rights”.
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