Welcome back to our World Cup series, where we compare various aspects of labor and employment law in some of the participating countries.1 We kicked off Parts One and Two of this series with vacation and sick leave entitlements. Part Three switched to workplace health and safety requirements. Part Four fielded the question of whether an employer can compel drug and alcohol testing. Viewers have heard plenty players crying foul in the lead-up to the round of 16, so we thought it would not be out of bounds to tackle whistleblower protections in Part Five.
The Netherlands
Under the current Dutch House for Whistleblowers Act, all employers in both the private and public sector, with 50 or more employees, must implement an internal reporting procedure through which people working for the company can report misconduct in the organization. In June 2021, the Dutch legislature published a bill to implement the E.U. Whistleblower Directive (2019/1937). Once this bill is implemented, the internal reporting procedures must be fit to deal with reports regarding malpractices under Dutch law and violations of E.U. law. The bill is currently still pending in the House of Representative but is still expected to enter into force in 2022.
Under the draft bill, the dates for compliance are now:
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