A Ukrainian whistleblower’s case received a landmark judgment from an appeals court. According to an article from The Solidarity Center, an appeals court recently confirmed a lower court decision from 2021 that deemed a whistleblower had been illegally fired in an act of whistleblower retaliation.
Olena Bebeshko was a “leader of the Independent Trade Union of Aviation Workers of Ukraine at the VIP terminal” at the Boryspil International Airport in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. She blew the whistle on corruption at the terminal, reporting it to Ukraine’s National Anticorruption Bureau. The article states that after she reported the corruption, “Bebeshko and other terminal workers suffered harassment and violent attacks.” The union of Natalia Zhulinska states that she “was fired after refusing to ignore improper activities and almost entirely blinded in a 2017 acid attack.” Zhulinska’s union says that before the acid attack, “her car was destroyed by fire, with explosives and weapons planted inside to frame her for the attempt on her life.”
“Bebeshko was fired in 2021 after directing corruption allegations from the union to the National Anticorruption Bureau,” the article states. A lower court ordered that she be reinstated, but “she was denied admittance to her workplace and her pay cut by one-third during the appeals process.” Through the appeals court’s confirmation of the lower court decision that her firing was illegal, Bebeshko will be reinstated immediately, “at full pay,...
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