By 17 December 2021, the EU Member States had to transpose the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive into national law. The purpose of the directive is to provide stronger protection across EU countries for people wanting to report breaches of EU law. Employees who decide to file a report must now be provided with clear reporting channels and be protected from retaliation. Learn more below on the latest EU directive FAQs and updates to Portugal’s transposition of the Directive.
How should companies differentiate between the many forms of reportable misconduct?
It is in best practice for companies to accept as many types of whistleblowing reports as possible. Doing so proves to employees that the company believes in the commitment to do the right thing, even if the topics raised go beyond compliance. In turn, this creates an employee culture of trust through the company’s ability to act, and take reports seriously, no matter what the report entails.
In addition, by allowing employees to send all reports to a whistleblowing channel, it stops confusion surrounding where employees can go to make a report– each case can then be sent across and followed up by the right internal people, if needed.
Companies should also categorise whistleblowing reports themselves, rather than leaving the burden up to the whistleblower. Whistleblowers are not often topic experts, nor trained in categorising reports - forcing them to push their report in a certain direction or...
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