On 12 April, on the website of the Government Legislation Centre, the second version of the bill on the protection of people reporting infringements of the law, implementing the EU Directive on the Protection of Whistleblowers, was published. The bill takes into account some of the concerns raised during public consultations. In addition to putting in order the solutions presented so far, the bill also introduces several changes. Below we present the most important of them.

According to the second version of the bill:

• The list of entities obliged to implement internal reporting procedures has been expanded. The previous version of the bill referred to “employers with at least 50 employees“, and now it refers to “legal entities for which work is performed by at least 50 people“. Therefore, it would appear that this threshold now includes people performing work on the basis of civil law contracts.
• Among others, temporary workers have been added to the list of people reporting or publicly disclosing information about a breach of the law.
• The catalogue of retaliatory actions has been extended and now includes, among other things, mobbing and discrimination. In addition, the bill provides that even attempts or threats to take such actions may be considered as retaliatory actions against whistleblowers.
• The amount of compensation that may be claimed by a person who has suffered damage as a result of the deliberate reporting or public disclosure of false information has...

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